Book launch: Throw Your Voice by Meghanne Barker
Celebrate the publication of this work on the ethnography of childhood in Kazakhstan and hear from renowned experts in childhood studies.
Book launch: Throw Your Voice by Meghanne Barker
The book explores how children and adults use animations of ideal childhood to sustain care for children in vulnerable conditions and to promote ideologies of children as the future of the nation-state.
Meghanne Barker, Catherine Allerton and Diana Georgescu 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.
This event will be particularly useful for scholars and those interested in questions of childhood, creative practice, and Eurasia.
Related links
- Throw Your Voice by Meghanne Barker
- Critical Childhood Studies Centre
- Department of Education, Practice and Society
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Meghanne is an anthropologist who studies everyday creative practice in postsocialist Eastern Europe and Eurasia.
Professor and Head of Department
Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Catherine is an anthropologist interested in the materialities and mobilities of everyday life.
Her research has focused on place, relatedness, childhood and migration, especially in island Southeast Asia.
Lecturer in Transnational/Comparative Southeast European Studies
UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies
Diana is a historian and gender studies scholar whose work focuses on communist Eastern Europe and the collapse of communism.
She has written about childhood in the context of communist Romania to explore themes of children's agency and performativity in relation to the nation-state.
Further information
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Cost
Free
Open to
All
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