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"What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible futures? These questions are at the heart of the (An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War. This edited collection stems from a collaboration between academics and artists who came together to collectively remember their own experiences of growing up on both sides of the 'Iron Curtain'. Looking beyond official historical archives, the book gathers memories that have been erased or forgotten, delegitimized or essentialized, or, at best, reinterpreted nostalgically within the dominant frameworks of the East-West divide. And it reassembles and (re)stores these childhood memories in a form of an 'anarchive': a site for merging, mixing, connecting, but also juxtaposing personal experiences, public memory, political rhetoric, places, times, and artifacts. These acts and arts of collective remembering tell about possible futures-and the past's futures-what life during the Cold War might have been but also what it has become. (An)Archive will be of particular interest to scholars in a variety of fields, but particularly to artists, educators, historians, social scientists, and others working with memory methodologies that range from collective biography to oral history, (auto)biography, autoethnography, and archives."--Publisher's website.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction. The Anarchive of Memories : Restor(y)ing Cold-War Childhoods / Mnemo ZIN
• 1. Who Do I Remember For? Memory as Genre and Dark Pleasures of Trauma Witnessing / Petar Odak
• Diasporic Knowledges in Central Asia: (Re)membering in Jeong / Olga Mun
• 2. 'I Wanted to See the Man with that Mark on his Forehead': A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory / Pia Koivunen
• Rua Liga Dos Comunistas / José Cossa
• 3. Passing Bye / Hanna Trampert Breakfast Across Borders / Stefanie Weiss Santos
• 4. The Other Side of the Curtain? Troubling Western Memories of (Post)socialism / Erica Burman
• Smearing the Portrait / Lucian Țion
• 5. You Can't Go Home Again... Especially if You Have Never Had One / Madina Tlostanova
• Smuggling Jewelry / Tatyana Kleyn
• Sleepy Smuggles / Sarah Fichtner
• 6. The Power of Other Worlds: Civilisational Frames and Child-Adult Intimacies in Socialist Childhoods / Jennifer Patico
• The Door / Khanum Gevorgyan
• 7. Growing up in Cold War Argentina: Working through the (An)archives of Childhood Memories / Inés Dusse
• Searching for Childhood Gummi Bears / Nadine Bernhard
• 8. The Secrets: Connections Across Divides / Irena Kašparová, Beatrice Scutaru, Josefine Raasch, Katarzyna Gawlicz, Zsuzsa Millei
• Open Coffin / Irena Kašparová
• 9. Mysterious Cotton Pieces: Childhood Memories of Menstruation / Zsuzsa Millei, Katarzyna Gawlicz
• Soviet Feminism? / Nadia Tsulukidze
• 10. Lift Up Your Arms! Elite Athletes and Cold War Childhoods / Susanne Gannon, Stefanie Weiss Santos

• Losing Balance / Tatyana Kleyn
• Adult Hospital Ward / Irena Kašparová
• 11. Children on their Own: Cold War Childhood Memories of Unsupervised Times / Nadine Bernhard, Kathleen Falkenberg
• Nokia / Nelli Piattoeva
• Blackberry Picking / Rahim Rahimov
• 12. Transcending the Border: Memory, Objects, and Alternative Memorialization in Cold War Childhoods / Ivana Polić
• Snowflake / Iveta Silova
• New Year's Frog / Nelli Piattoeva
• 13. Anarchive and Arts-Based Research: Upcycling Rediscovered Memories and Materials / Raisa Foster
• The Tailor / Thoma Sukhashvili
• 14. Anarchive, Oral Histories, and Teaching Comparative Cold War Childhoods Across Geographies and Generations / Elena Jackson Albarrán
• Pink Flamingo / Iveta Silova
• 15. Connecting Across Divides: A Case Study in Public History of the (e-)Motion Comic 'Ghost Train-Memories of Ghost Trains and Ghost Stations in Former East and West-Berlin' (pp. 351-369) Sarah FichtnerAnja Werner Traveling Stones (pp. 370-370) Oshie Nishimura-Sahi 16. Re-membering Ceremonies: Childhood Memories of Our Relationships with Plants / Esther Pretti,Jieyu Jiang, Keti Tsotniashvili, Dilraba Anayatova, Ann NielsenIveta Silova.

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Contributors:

Millei, Zsuzsa , editor

Piattoeva, Nelli , editor

Silova, Iveta , editor

Open Book Publishers , publisher, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/pbl

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Cold War — Biography

Cold War — Social aspects — Europe — History

Socialism — Europe, Eastern

Europe, Eastern — Social conditions — 20th century

Europe, Western — Social conditions — 20th century

Cold War (1945-1989)

1900-1999

Socialism

Social conditions

Social aspects

Europe

Western Europe

Eastern Europe

Genres:

History

Biographies

General Notes:

"Mnemo ZIN is a composite name for Zsuzsa Millei, Iveta Silova, and Nelli Piattoeva"--Publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This work is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) license. For more detailed information consult the publisher's website.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 420 pages) : 41 colour illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

D839.5 .A734 2024eb

ISBNs:

9781805111870 (pdf)
9781805111887 (EPUB)
9781805111900 (HTML)
9781805111856 (pbk.) [Invalid]
9781805111863 (hbk.) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1432159792

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: xb35941704