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Post‐socialist geopolitical uncertainties: Researching memories of childhood with ‘child as method’
Author(s) -
Burman Erica,
Millei Zsuzsa
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12551
Subject(s) - geopolitics , politics , power (physics) , early childhood , sociology , cold war , work (physics) , childhood studies , position (finance) , political science , gender studies , psychology , developmental psychology , law , economics , mechanical engineering , physics , finance , quantum mechanics , engineering
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.