Descrizione del progetto
L’impatto della guerra e della violenza politica sui bambini
Tra le rovine della guerra e il caos dei disordini politici, un’inquietante preoccupazione deriva dalle cicatrici impresse nella mente dei bambini. Con il sostegno del programma di azioni Marie Skłodowska-Curie, il progetto RETROCHILD porta alla luce il tributo psicologico della guerra e della violenza politica sulle vite dei giovani vissuti tra il 1945 e il 1960. Quest’epoca, segnata dalle conseguenze della seconda guerra mondiale, ha visto numerosi bambini coinvolti negli scontri, la cui innocenza è stata frantumata dai traumi delle battaglie. Concentrandosi sulle terre di confine tra l’Italia e la Slovenia ma adottando al contempo una prospettiva globale, RETROCHILD esamina il trauma e la resilienza come lenti per analizzare il modo in cui la società, gli esperti e gli stessi bambini colpiti hanno definito e affrontato le ferite psicologiche associate a questa esperienza. RETROCHILD analizza inoltre gli interventi relativi ai sistemi medici, sociali e legali in questo ambito.
Obiettivo
RETROCHILD explores the (psychological) impacts of war and other forms of political violence on children (age 0-18) from a historical perspective relying on trauma and resilience as analytical concepts. Temporally, it is focused on the post World War II period (19451960). Geographically, it explores what is now the borderland between Italy and Slovenia, but also aims for a global perspective on the phenomena at hand. Its main objectives are to explore how the meanings surrounding the concept of childhood trauma (or resilience) were defined by different actors, ranging from the experts who worked with children affected by political violence to the children themselves and also to uncover the political motivations behind the narratives relating to and the treatment of children who were considered traumatised or psychologically damaged. In order to examine the universalisations related to the meanings and motivations behind these, the project applies a novel retrograde approach, which, instead of the events presumably involving psychological distress, develops the analysis from three subsequent examples of social, medical and legal interventions: the first intervention involves orphans and abandoned children (WP1), the second children in psychiatric care (WP2) and the third juvenile delinquents (WP3). RETROCHILDs unique interlinked focus on interventions within the medical, social and criminal justice systems in the border area will reveal original insights into the nature of the experiences of war and the socialist childhood, as well as the functioning of political power. In addition to questioning the universal (Western) notions of trauma and victimhood, the project will use childhood narratives in a highly contested border region to challenge the conventional divide between socialist and non-socialist (or eastern and western) understandings of social welfare, education and mental illness.
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Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
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