TY - JOUR
T1 - Scenes From a Collective Biography of Cold War Childhoods
T2 - A Decolonial Ethnodrama
AU - Millei, Zsuzsanna
AU - Silova, Iveta
AU - Piattoeva, Nelli
AU - Gannon, Susanne
N1 - Mnemo ZIN, Tampere University, Kalevanitie 6, Tampere 33100, Finland. Email: [email protected]
*Mnemo ZIN is a composite name for Zsuzsa Millei (Tampere University), Iveta Silova (Arizona State University), and Nelli Piattoeva (Tampere University). By adopting a collective name, we foreground our entangled, perpetual becoming-with as researchers and human beings who refuse to single out or rank our contributions. Our collective name is inspired by the figure of Mnemosyne from Greek mythology, goddess of memory and mother of the nine Muses. Spanning over almost ten years, our research examines childhood memories through the collective biography method, writing alternative histories and informing our current thinking about (post)socialist and (de)colonial pasts, presents, and futures.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This article is written as and ethnodrama. Approaching memory work as decolonial practice, we aimed to multiply stories of Cold War childhoods while simultaneously making the politics of collective biography processes explicit. The script is based on nonfictional reality and is expanded by both researched and speculative elements to compose an evocative text and the characters of the drama. Ethnodrama offers a sense of how it was to “be there,” attending to unspoken and embodied knowledges, questioning habits and assumptions, and making visible the hierarchies and power, and the intricacies and coloniality of knowledge production that emerge in research practices.
AB - This article is written as and ethnodrama. Approaching memory work as decolonial practice, we aimed to multiply stories of Cold War childhoods while simultaneously making the politics of collective biography processes explicit. The script is based on nonfictional reality and is expanded by both researched and speculative elements to compose an evocative text and the characters of the drama. Ethnodrama offers a sense of how it was to “be there,” attending to unspoken and embodied knowledges, questioning habits and assumptions, and making visible the hierarchies and power, and the intricacies and coloniality of knowledge production that emerge in research practices.
U2 - 10.1177/15327086211068194
DO - 10.1177/15327086211068194
M3 - Article
SN - 1532-7086
VL - 22
SP - 235
EP - 244
JO - CULTURAL STUDIES: CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
JF - CULTURAL STUDIES: CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
IS - 3
ER -