Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
- 130 pages
- English
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Youth and Social Change in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
About this book
Two decades have now passed since the revolutions of 1989 swept through Eastern Europe and precipitated the collapse of state socialism across the region, engendering a period of massive social, economic and political transformation. This book explores the ways in which young people growing up in post-socialist Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union negotiate a range of identities and transitions in their personal lives against a backdrop of thoroughgoing transformation in their societies. Drawing upon original empirical research in a range of countries, the book's contributors explore the various freedoms and insecurities that have accompanied neo-liberal transformation in post-socialist countries - in spheres as diverse as consumption, migration, political participation, volunteering, employment and family formation - and examine the ways in which they have begun to re-shape different aspects of young people's lives. In addition, while 'social change' is a central theme of the issue, all of the chapters in the collection indicate that the new opportunities and risks faced by young people continue both to underpin and to be shaped by familiar social and spatial divisions, not only within and between the countries addressed, but also between 'East' and 'West'.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Journal of Youth Studies.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- 1. Youth and social change in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- 2. The post-revolutionary consumer generation: āmainstreamā youth and the paradox of choice in the Czech Republic
- 3. Creating reflexive volunteers? Young peopleās participation in Czech hospital volunteer programmes
- 4. Young people and migration from contemporary Poland
- 5. From āinheritanceā to individualization: disembedding working-class youth transitions in post-Soviet Russia
- 6. Concepts of citizenship, social and system integration among young people in post-Soviet Moldova
- 7. Ukrainian youth and civic engagement: unconventional participation in local spaces
- 8. āRocking the voteā: new forms of youth organisations in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union
- Index