IAS Book Launch: Throw Your Voice. Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhood

ABOUT THE BOOK
Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhood is a story of loss and recovery. It relates how children placed in a temporary care institution make sense of their situations. Moving between a Kazakhstan government children's home, Hope House, and the Almaty State Puppet Theater, Meghanne Barker shows how children, and puppets, as proxies, bring to life ideologies of childhood and visions of a rosy future. Sites and stories run in parallel. Framed by the narrative of Anton Chekhov's Kashtanka, about a lost dog taken in by a kind stranger, the author follows the story's staging at the puppet theater. At Hope House, children find themselves on a path similar to Kashtanka, dislodged from their first homes to reside in a second.

Throw Your Voice: Suspended Animations in Kazakhstani Childhood is published by Cornell University Press. Click here for more information.

ABOUT THE EVENT
Catherine Allerton (Professor in the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics) and Diana Georgescu (Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative Southeast European Studies, UCL SSEES) will offer perspectives on how the book relates to larger questions of the anthropology of childhood and the history of childhood in socialist Eastern Europe. 

All welcome. Please register to attend at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-launch-throw-your-voice-by-meghanne-barker-tickets-1091046522519

This book launch is part of the Institute of Advanced Studies Book Launch Series and organised by the Critical Childhood Studies Centre. The Centre is a home for world-leading scholarship about childhood as a socio-political, cultural, and historical phenomenon in diverse global contexts. The Centre provides a focal point for faculty and students at all levels in UCL to engage in innovative and multi-disciplinary research, teaching, and public engagement geared towards achieving social justice with and for children and young people.

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