Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context [electronic resource] /
Schwartz, Matthias.editor.
Winkel, Heike.editor.
The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe. Since then, young people have been confronted with fundamental disruptions and transformations to their daily environment, while an unsettling, globalized world substantially reshapes local belongings and conventional values. In times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume argues, young people prefer to try to adjust to given circumstances than to adopt the behaviour of potential rebellious, adolescent role models, dissident counter-cultures or artistic breakings of taboo. Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context takes this situation as a starting point for an examination of generational change, cultural belongings, political activism and everyday practices of young people in different Eastern European countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It argues that the conditions of global change not only call for a differentiated evaluation of youth cultures, but also for a revision of our understanding of 'youth' itself – in Eastern Europe and beyond.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I. Reconsidering Generational Change : 1. The End of Childhood and/or the Discovery of the Tineidzher? Adolescence in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture / Catriona Kelly -- 2. Youth Cultures and the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe / Ken Roberts -- 3. Fast Forward to Capitalism? Accelerated Youth in Post-Socialism / Herwig Reiter and Christine Steiner -- 4. Revival without Nostalgia: The ‘Dizel’ Movement, Serbian 1990s Cultural Trauma and Globalised Youth Cultures / Jovana Papović and Astrea Pejović -- 5. Symptom of the Loser and the Melancholy of the Post-Soviet Generation / Tamara Hundorova -- Part II. Popular Belongings: Subcultural Places and Globalised Spaces : 6. ‘Rap on Rap Is Sacred’: The Appropriation of Hip Hop in the Czech Republic / Anna Oravcová -- 7. Flaming Flares, Football Fanatics and Political Rebellion: Resistant Youth Cultures in Late Capitalism / Dominik Antonowicz, Radosław Kossakowski and Tomasz Szlendak -- 8. Everything Feels Bad: Figurations of the Self in Contemporary Eastern European Literature / Matthias Schwartz -- 9. ‘Bright Reference Point of Our Youth’: Bondy, Podsiadło and the Redefinition of the Underground / Alfrun Kliems -- Part III. Reshaping Political Activism: Between Rebellion and Adjustment : 10. Fallen Vanguards and Vanished Rebels? Political Youth Involvement in Extraordinary Times / Félix Krawatzek -- 11. ‘To Serve like a Man’ – Ukraine’s Euromaidan and the Questions of Gender, Nationalism and Generational Change / Sabine Roßmann -- 12. The Conception of Revolutionary Youth in Maksim Gor’kii’s The Mother and Zakhar Prilepin’s San’kia / Matthias Meindl -- 13. ‘Polittusovka’ – An Alternative Public Space of Young Politicians in Contemporary Russia / Anna Zhelnina -- Part IV. Contested Agency: Civic Engagement and Everyday Practices : 14. Youth Cultures in Contemporary Russia: Memory, Politics, Solidarities / Elena Omelchenko and Guzel Sabirova -- 15. Public Discourse and Volunteer Militias in Post-Soviet Russia / Gleb Tsipursky -- 16. Battlefield Internet: Young Russian SNS Users and New-Media State Propaganda / Vera Zvereva -- 17. ‘Flashy’ Pictures: Social Activist Comics and Russian Youth / José Alaniz -- 18. Youth in the Post-Soviet Space: Is the Central Asian Case Really So Different? / Stefan B. Kirmse
The demise of state Socialisms caused radical social, cultural and economic changes in Eastern Europe. Since then, young people have been confronted with fundamental disruptions and transformations to their daily environment, while an unsettling, globalized world substantially reshapes local belongings and conventional values. In times of multiple instabilities and uncertainties, this volume argues, young people prefer to try to adjust to given circumstances than to adopt the behaviour of potential rebellious, adolescent role models, dissident counter-cultures or artistic breakings of taboo. Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context takes this situation as a starting point for an examination of generational change, cultural belongings, political activism and everyday practices of young people in different Eastern European countries from an interdisciplinary perspective. It argues that the conditions of global change not only call for a differentiated evaluation of youth cultures, but also for a revision of our understanding of 'youth' itself – in Eastern Europe and beyond.
Childhood.
Adolescence.
Sociology.
Europe—Politics and government.
Youth—Social life and customs.
Sociology, Urban.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Childhood, Adolescence and Society.
Sociology, general.
European Politics.
Youth Culture.
Urban Studies/Sociology.
Regional and Cultural Studies.