Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with 'child as method'.
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| Title: | Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with 'child as method'. |
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| Authors: | Burman, Erica, Millei, Zsuzsa |
| Source: | Children & Society. Sep2022, Vol. 36 Issue 5, p993-1009. 17p. |
| Subjects: | Adverse childhood experiences, Memory in children, Practical politics, Biography (Literary form), Sociodemographic factors, Power (Social sciences), Storytelling |
| Abstract: | This article engages continuing discussions in childhood studies on (re)inserting the study of childhood into wider socio‐political matrices of power and practices. We present as a potent analytical strategy to do this work 'child as method', developed by one of the authors. After describing 'child as method', we draw on the Recollect/Reconnect project, in which scholars and artists who grew up during the last decades of the Cold War recalled their childhood memories. We focus on 'the child' and 'childhood' as a position of geopolitical address, formulated by narrators to the reader as revealing emergent post‐socialist subjectivities and conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Database: | Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection |
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| Abstract: | This article engages continuing discussions in childhood studies on (re)inserting the study of childhood into wider socio‐political matrices of power and practices. We present as a potent analytical strategy to do this work 'child as method', developed by one of the authors. After describing 'child as method', we draw on the Recollect/Reconnect project, in which scholars and artists who grew up during the last decades of the Cold War recalled their childhood memories. We focus on 'the child' and 'childhood' as a position of geopolitical address, formulated by narrators to the reader as revealing emergent post‐socialist subjectivities and conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 09510605 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/chso.12551 |
