This book offers the first comprehensive analysis of youth, in
all its diversity, in Muslim Central Asia and the Caucasus. It
brings together a range of academic perspectives, including media
studies, Islamic studies, the sociology of youth, and social
anthropology.
While most discussions of youth in the former Soviet South frame
the younger generation as victims of crisis, as targets of state
policy, or as holy warriors, this book maps out the complexity and
variance of everyday lives under post-Soviet conditions. Youth is
not a clear-cut, predictable life stage. Yet, across the region,
young people's lives show forms of experimentation and regulation.
Male and female youth explore new opportunities not only in the
buzzing space of the city, but also in the more closely monitored
neighbourhood of their family homes. At the same time, they are
constrained by communal expectations, ethnic affiliation, urban or
rural background and by gender and sexuality. While young people
are more dependent and monitored than many others, they are also
more eager to explore and challenge. In many ways, they stand at
the cutting edge of globalization and post-Soviet change, and thus
they offer innovative perspectives on these processes.
This book was published as a special issue of Central Asian
Survey.
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