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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.
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.
This book explores the changing nature of growing-up working-class
in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the experience of
neo-liberal economic reform. Based on extensive ethnographic
research in a provincial Russian region, it follows the experiences
of vocational education graduates whose colleges continue to
channel them into the ailing industrial and agricultural sectors.
Rather than settling for transitions into 'poor work', the book
shows how these young men and women develop a range of strategies
aimed at overcoming the poverty of opportunity available to them in
traditional enterprises, pursuing instead emerging opportunities in
higher education, jobs in the new service sector and the prospect
of migration. Drawing on a range of theoretical perspectives,
Charles Walker analyses these strategies and their significance for
wider processes of social change and social stratification in
post-Soviet Russia.
This book explores the changing nature of growing-up
working-class in post-Soviet Russia, a country dislocated by the
experience of neo-liberal economic reform. Based on extensive
ethnographic research in a provincial Russian region, it follows
the experiences of vocational education graduates whose colleges
continue to channel them into the ailing industrial and
agricultural sectors. Rather than settling for transitions into a
~poor worka (TM), the book shows how these young men and women
develop a range of strategies aimed at overcoming the poverty of
opportunity available to them in traditional enterprises, pursuing
instead emerging opportunities in higher education, jobs in the new
service sector and the prospect of migration. Drawing on a range of
theoretical perspectives, Charles Walker analyses these strategies
and their significance for wider processes of social change and
social stratification in post-Soviet Russia.
Through a wide variety of primary sources--including letters,
eyewitness accounts, and governmental documents--this collection
portrays in vivid detail the three indigenous rebellions that
threatened Spanish control of its South American colonies more than
a quarter century before the Wars of Independence (1808-1825).
Headnotes introduce each selection, and a general introduction
provides historical, cultural, and political context. Maps, a
chronology of the rebellions, and a glossary of terms are included.
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