Body Memory in Those who Experienced Loss in Childhood and Adolescence

Simpkins, Sara Anne

doi:10.17918/etd-7326

DOI: 10.17918/etd-7326

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Body Memory in Those who Experienced Loss in Childhood and Adolescence

Sara Anne Simpkins¹

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“…Thus, our aim here is to make space for ways of memory analysis that draw on body memory as a visceral and muscular choreography with the world. More than mere muscle memory, or remembering how something is done unconsciously, the body remembers our experiences of the world, and these past experiences live in our bodies (Bourdieu, 1990;Fuchs, 2012;Simpkins, 2016). This paper seeks to engage in a more complex understanding of ideological socialization and its limits.…”

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‘When the body speaks back’: Socialization of body-mind dualism in body memories of Cold War childhoods

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Studies focusing on East Central Europe have generously explored collective memory (lieux de mémoire, monuments, ceremonies) and nostalgia for a past regime, but rarely have they examined memories as carried in child bodies. In this paper, we analyze selected Cold War childhood memories to explore events in which children’s bodies seemingly act out of control. As a part of socialization, children are taught to consciously control their bodies to fit in the societies they have been born to. With learning to control the body, children also learn that bodies are separate from their minds and that their minds can govern and regiment their body. However, bodies also slip up, avert, or simply remain unaffected by these attempts, in a way ‘speaking back’ to regulating forces, thus troubling the modernist assumption of the separation between the mind and body. The aim of the paper is to show the complexities and limits of socialist or any modern(ist) forms of socialization in which the concerted efforts of the mind are mobilized to govern the body. Moreover, the discussion of body memory and the highlighted mechanisms of how socialization efforts create bodily memories adds to our understanding of the effects of pedagogical intentions in education.

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Body Memory in Those who Experienced Loss in Childhood and Adolescence

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