Childhood and Schooling in (Post)Socialist Societies: Memories of Everyday Life 1st Edition Iveta Silova

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• ISBN 10: 3319627910
• ISBN 13: 9783319627915
• Author:   Iveta Silova

This book explores childhood and schooling in late socialist societies by bringing into dialogue public narratives and personal memories that move beyond imaginaries of Cold War divisions between the East and West. Written by cultural insiders who were brought up and educated on the eastern side of the Iron Curtain – spanning from Central Europe to mainland Asia – the book offers insights into the diverse spaces of socialist childhoods interweaving with broader political, economic, and social life. These evocative memories explore the experiences of children in navigating state expectations to embody “model socialist citizens” and their mixed feelings of attachment, optimism, dullness, and alienation associated with participation in “building” socialist futures. Drawing on the research traditions of autobiography, autoethnography, and collective biography, the authors challenge what is often considered ‘normal’ and ‘natural’ in the historical accounts of socialist childhoods, and engage in (re)writing histories that open space for new knowledges and vast webs of interconnections to emerge. This book will be compelling reading for students and researchers working in education, sociology and history, particularly those within the interdisciplinary fields of childhood and area studies. ‘The authors of this beautiful book are professional academics and intellectuals who grew up in different socialist countries. Exploring “socialist childhoods” in myriad ways, they draw on memories, and collective history, emotional insider knowledge and the measured perspective of an analyst. What emerges is life that was caught between real optimism and dullness, ethical commitments and ideological absurdities, selfless devotion to children and their treatment as a political resource. Such attention to detail and examination of the paradoxical nature of this time makes this collective effort not only timely but remarkably genuine.’  —Alexei Yurchak, University of California, USA

Table contents:

1. Remembering Childhoods, Rewriting (Post)Socialist Lives
2. Memories in Dialogue: Transnational Stories About Socialist Childhoods
3. A Dulled Mind in an Active Body: Growing Up as a Girl in Normalization Czechoslovakia
4. On the Edge of Two Zones: Slovak Socialist Childhoods
5. Growing Up as Vicar’s Daughter in Communist Czechoslovakia: Politics, Religion, and Childhood Agency Examined
6. Uncle Ho’s Good Children Award and State Power at a Socialist School in Vietnam
7. Tito’s Last Pioneers and the Politicization of Schooling in Yugoslavia
8. Hair Bows and Uniforms: Entangled Politics in Children’s Everyday Lives
9. Interrupted Trajectory: The Experiences of Disability and Homeschooling in Post-Soviet Russia
10. Teaching It Straight: Sexuality Education Across Post-State-Socialist Contexts
11. Erasure and Renewal in (Post)Socialist China: My Mother’s Long Journey
12. Towards Decolonizing Childhood and Knowledge Production
13. 1. Afterwords
14. Preface to Afterwords
15. Narratives from Bygone Times: Toward a Multiplicity of Socialist Childhoods
16. The Worlds of Childhood Memory
17. Decolonizing the Postsocialist Childhood Memories
18. Beyond the Young Pioneers: Memory Work with (Post)socialist Childhoods
19. A New Horizon for Comparative Education?

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