Iveta Silova
@isilova.bsky.social
Scholar of education and planetary futures 🌍 | Exploring the intersections of post-socialist, post-colonial, and decolonial thought | Looking for portals 🌿 | Professor at ASU | @isilova.bsky.social
This a memory glimpse from "An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War" coedited with @microbial-child.bsky.social and Nelli Piattoeva. Read more here (open access): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
(An)Archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War
What was it like growing up during the Cold War? What can childhood memories tell us about state socialism and its aftermath? How can these intimate memories complicate history and redefine possible f...
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February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
This a memory glimpse from "An)archive: Childhood, Memory, and the Cold War" coedited with @microbial-child.bsky.social and Nelli Piattoeva. Read more here (open access): www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | You Can’t Go Home Again
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
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#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
✍️ Madina Tlostanova
A Soviet childhood of exile, escape, and quiet revolt.
Remembering as refusal - and return.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #PostSocialism #Memory #Childhood @microbial-child.bsky.social @OpenBookPublishers
January 19, 2026 at 3:24 AM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
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✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
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#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall.
books.openbookpublishers.com/10.11647/obp...
#Anarchive #memory @microbial-child.bsky.social @openbookpublish.bsky.social
January 6, 2026 at 3:37 AM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Smearing the Portrait
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
bsky.app/profile/isil...
✍️ Lucian Țion
A boy. A wet sponge. Ceaușescu’s face on the wall. A perfect throw. A moment before the fall. Read more 👇
bsky.app/profile/isil...
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
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The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
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🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4: The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.
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#Anarchive #Memory
✍️ Erica Burman
What does the Cold War look like from the “safe” side? Burman revisits a childhood in northern England—activism, media, memory, and forgetting.
🔗 www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#Anarchive #Memory
December 29, 2025 at 4:06 PM
🧶 #MemoryMondays | Chapter 4
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
Read more 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
The Other Side of the Curtain?
✍️ Erica Burman
Read more 👇 bsky.app/profile/isil...
December 29, 2025 at 4:05 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory: “Breakfast Across Borders”
✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos
What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography?
@microbial-child.bsky.social #Memory @CollectiveBiography #Childhood
✍️ By Stefanie Weiss Santos
What does a morning meal carry across borders — beyond food, beyond routine, beyond geography?
@microbial-child.bsky.social #Memory @CollectiveBiography #Childhood
December 15, 2025 at 5:00 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Memory Highlight
“Rua Liga Dos Comunistas”
✍️ By José Cossa
What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
“Rua Liga Dos Comunistas”
✍️ By José Cossa
What does the Cold War feel like in Maputo? A childhood fragment. A street. A world in motion.
@microbial-child.bsky.social
#Anarchive #Memory #CollectiveBiography
@gesigcies.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 4:57 PM
Reposted by Iveta Silova
11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
May 13, 2025 at 6:04 AM
11. For a World where Mutual Worlds Fit: Political Ontology in the Anthropocene
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
Alyne Costa
Part 4. Speculations
Introduction
Didier Debaise
12. Decolonial Portals as Pedagogical Practice
Bea C. Rodriquez-Fransen, Victoria Desimoni and Iveta Silova
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2
‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory
✍️ By Pia Koivunen bsky.app/profile/isil... @microbial-child.bsky.social @shermandorn.com #Memory #ColdWar
‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory
✍️ By Pia Koivunen bsky.app/profile/isil... @microbial-child.bsky.social @shermandorn.com #Memory #ColdWar
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2: ‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’
✍️ By Pia Koivunen
What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method?
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#anarchive #memory
✍️ By Pia Koivunen
What happens when a historian turns the lens inward—when memory becomes both the object and the method?
Read (open access):
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
#anarchive #memory
December 9, 2025 at 7:38 PM
🧶 MEMORY MONDAYS | Chapter 2
‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory
✍️ By Pia Koivunen bsky.app/profile/isil... @microbial-child.bsky.social @shermandorn.com #Memory #ColdWar
‘I Wanted to See the Man with That Mark on His Forehead’: A Historian, Her Childhood Experiences, and the Power of Memory
✍️ By Pia Koivunen bsky.app/profile/isil... @microbial-child.bsky.social @shermandorn.com #Memory #ColdWar