6. The Power of Other Worlds
Journal: Open Book Publishers
Year: 2024

This chapter draws on childhood-memory narratives from Cold War socialist and early post-socialist settings to problematize the east-west civilisational hierarchies that often frame accounts of socialism’s ‘less developed’ material and consumer worlds. In the narratives, children’s encounters with commodities from abroad speak not only or directly to the significance of east/west, socialist/capitalist hierarchies in their lives but also to children’s relationships with the adults closest to them