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Small Stories of WarChildren, Youth, and Conflict in Canada and Beyond |
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An interdisciplinary and international examination of young people and armed conflict in the twentieth century.
Many believed the twentieth century would be the century of the child: an era in which modern societies would value and protect children, sheltering them from violence and poverty. Yet this hopeful vision was marred by the harsh realities of migration, displacement, and armed conflict.
Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children’s artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people.
Engaging with cutting-edge debates about emotions, temporality, space, and young people as political actors, Small Stories of War offers compelling new research and an interpretive toolkit that will benefit scholars from across the social sciences and humanities.
Small Stories of War grapples with the meanings and memories of childhood and wartime by asking new questions about lived experience. Spanning the First World War to the early twenty-first century and featuring chapters about Canada, Australia, Germany, the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, and northern Uganda, this volume asks how young people encountered and responded to armed conflict. How did children, youth, and their families make sense of war in the violent twentieth century? How have they shared their stories and experiences of violence and trauma? Analyzing a broad range of sources including family letters, oral history, and children’s artwork, contributors offer important insights into the production of historical knowledge with and about young people.
Engaging with cutting-edge debates about emotions, temporality, space, and young people as political actors, Small Stories of War offers compelling new research and an interpretive toolkit that will benefit scholars from across the social sciences and humanities.
Details
Part of the Carleton Library Series (number 264 in series)
392 Pages, 6.25 x 9.25
63 figures, colour insert
ISBN 9780228016847
June 2023
Formats: Cloth, Paperback, eBook
“In this innovative study the authors use oral history, material culture, letters, and art to centre children’s voices and experiences. Each chapter is well researched and sensitive to difficult subject matter. Collectively they make important contributions to the history of children and youth, war and society, memory and oral history, and the history of emotion and affect theory.” Nancy Janovicek, University of Calgary
Barbara Lorenzkowski is associate professor of history at Concordia University.
Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Lethbridge.
Andrew Burtch is the Post-1945 Historian at the Canadian War Museum, and an adjunct research professor in Carleton University’s history department.
Kristine Alexander is Canada Research Chair in Child and Youth Studies and associate professor of history at the University of Lethbridge.
Andrew Burtch is the Post-1945 Historian at the Canadian War Museum, and an adjunct research professor in Carleton University’s history department.
Acknowledgments | vii
Introduction | 3
Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander, and Andrew Burtch
Part One: Global Wars
1 Children’s Images of War from the German Home Front, 1914-18 | 33
Carolyn Kay
2 Sensing War: Childhood Memories of the Wartime Atlantic, 1939-45 | 63
Barbara Lorenzkowski
3 “What Am I to Do to Save My Children?”: Canadian Children in Civil Defence Planning | 93
Andrew Burtch
Part Two: Family and Community
4 Children, Soldiers, and Correspondence in Canada’s First World War | 121
Kristine Alexander and Ashley Henrickson
5 Deconstructing a Canadian Military Family: The Taylor Mother and Son Remember the Cold War | 141
Isabel Campbell
6 From Wartime Refuge to Peaceful Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island | 167
Tarah Brookfield
Part Three: Telling Difficult Stories
7 Adolescents during Canada’s Afghanistan Mission | 189
Deborah Harrison and Patrizia Albanese
8 The Intergenerational Effects of Wartime Sexual Violence: Children Born of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda | 206
Myriam S. Denov
9 Politics and Emotion in Drawings by Children in Australian Immigration Detention | 224
Mary Tomsic
Part Four: In the Spotlight- Editors’ Introduction | 249
10 “Dear Daddy”: Children, Writing, and the First World War | 258
Kristine Alexander and Ashley Henrickson
11 Writing “Home”: Letters from British Child Evacuees Sent to Canada during the Second World War | 266
Claire L. Halstead
12 Charting the Social Spaces of Childhood in 1940s Halifax | 282
Barbara Lorenzkowski
13 Surviving the Peace: Mine Awareness Education in the Former Yugoslavia | 294
Andrew Burtch
14 “My Two Families”: Experiences of Refugee Youth | 300
Elizabeth Miller
15 “Donkeys Can’t Fly on Planes”: Intergenerational Storytelling and Artwork | 308
Mary Tomsic
Figures | 315
Bibliography | 317
Contributors | 347
Index | 351
Introduction | 3
Barbara Lorenzkowski, Kristine Alexander, and Andrew Burtch
Part One: Global Wars
1 Children’s Images of War from the German Home Front, 1914-18 | 33
Carolyn Kay
2 Sensing War: Childhood Memories of the Wartime Atlantic, 1939-45 | 63
Barbara Lorenzkowski
3 “What Am I to Do to Save My Children?”: Canadian Children in Civil Defence Planning | 93
Andrew Burtch
Part Two: Family and Community
4 Children, Soldiers, and Correspondence in Canada’s First World War | 121
Kristine Alexander and Ashley Henrickson
5 Deconstructing a Canadian Military Family: The Taylor Mother and Son Remember the Cold War | 141
Isabel Campbell
6 From Wartime Refuge to Peaceful Hippie Haven: Generations of Youth on Grindstone Island | 167
Tarah Brookfield
Part Three: Telling Difficult Stories
7 Adolescents during Canada’s Afghanistan Mission | 189
Deborah Harrison and Patrizia Albanese
8 The Intergenerational Effects of Wartime Sexual Violence: Children Born of Wartime Rape in Northern Uganda | 206
Myriam S. Denov
9 Politics and Emotion in Drawings by Children in Australian Immigration Detention | 224
Mary Tomsic
Part Four: In the Spotlight- Editors’ Introduction | 249
10 “Dear Daddy”: Children, Writing, and the First World War | 258
Kristine Alexander and Ashley Henrickson
11 Writing “Home”: Letters from British Child Evacuees Sent to Canada during the Second World War | 266
Claire L. Halstead
12 Charting the Social Spaces of Childhood in 1940s Halifax | 282
Barbara Lorenzkowski
13 Surviving the Peace: Mine Awareness Education in the Former Yugoslavia | 294
Andrew Burtch
14 “My Two Families”: Experiences of Refugee Youth | 300
Elizabeth Miller
15 “Donkeys Can’t Fly on Planes”: Intergenerational Storytelling and Artwork | 308
Mary Tomsic
Figures | 315
Bibliography | 317
Contributors | 347
Index | 351
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