Eastern European Youth Cultures in a Global Context (eBook)

Matthias Schwartz, Heike Winkel (Herausgeber)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2015
XII, 374 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan UK (Verlag)
978-1-137-38513-0 (ISBN)

Infos

This volume examines contemporary Eastern European youth cultures from an interdisciplinary perspective, investigating how the radical changes resulting from the demise of state Socialisms and concurrent increased globalization processes have resulted in huge challenges for young people and a reimagining of youth itself.

José Alaniz, University of Washington, USA Dominik Antonowicz, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland Tamara Hundorova, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, Ukraine Catriona Kelly, University of Oxford, UK Stefan B. Kirmse, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Alfrun Kliems, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Rados?aw Kossakowski, Gdansk University, Poland Félix Krawatzek, University of Oxford, UK Matthias Meindl, Zurich University, Switzerland Elena Omelchenko, Independent Scholar, UK Anna Oravcová, Charles University, Czech Republic Jovana Papovi?, Independent Scholar, Serbia Astrea Pejovi?, Independent Scholar, Serbia Herwig Reiter, German Youth Institute, Germany Ken Roberts, University of Liverpool, UK Sabine Roßmann, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Guzel Sabirova, NRU Higher School of Economics, Russia Christine Steiner, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany Tomasz Szlendak, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru?, Poland Tsipursky Gleb, Ohio State University, USA Anna Zhelnina, National Research University, Russia Vera Zvereva, University of Edinburgh, UK

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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 ofyouth cultures, but also for a revision of our understanding of 'youth' itself - in Eastern Europe and beyond.

Autor

Matthias Schwartz is a Research Associate at the Centre for Literary and Cultural Research Berlin, Germany. His research interests include the cultural history of Russian and Soviet adventure literature, science fiction and popular sciences; Eastern European youth cultures, memory cultures and cultures of affect; and contemporary literatures in a globalized world.Heike Winkel is a Research Fellow and lecturer at the Institute for East-European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include the Stalinist Soviet Union, contemporary Russian and Czech literature and culture with a focus on identity politics, mnemonic aspects of literature, and intersections of history and literature.

Inhalt

Introduction; Matthias Schwarz and Heike Winkel PART I: RECONSIDERING GENERATIONAL CHANGE1. The End of Childhood and/or the Discovery of the Tineidzher? Adolescence in Soviet and Post-Soviet Culture; Catriona Kelly2. Youth Cultures and the Formation of a New Political Generation in Eastern Europe; Ken Roberts3. Fast Forward to Capitalism? Accelerated Youth in Post-Socialism; Herwig Reiter and Christine Steiger4. Revival Without Nostalgia. The Dizel' Movement, Serbian Nineties Cultural Trauma and Globalized Youth Cultures; Jovana Papovi? and Astrea Pejovi?5. Symptom of the Loser and the Melancholy of the Post-Soviet Generation; Tamara HundorovaPART II: POPULAR BELONGINGS: SUBCULTURAL PLACES AND GLOBALIZED SPACES6. 'Rap on Rap is Sacred': The Appropriation of Hip Hop in the Czech Republic; Anna Oravcová7. Flaming Flares, Football Fanatics and Political Rebellion. Resistant Youth Cultures in Late Capitalism; Dominik Antonowicz, Rados?aw Kossakowski and Tomasz Szlendak8. Everything Feels Bad. Figurations of the Self in Contemporary Eastern European Literature; Matthias Schwartz9. 'Bright reference point of our youth'. Bondy, Podsiad?o, and the Redefinition of the Underground; Alfrun KliemsPART III: RESHAPING POLITICAL ACTIVISM: BETWEEN REBELLION AND ADJUSTMENT10. Fallen Vanguards and Vanished Rebels? Political Youth Involvement in Extraordinary Times; Félix Krawatzek11: 'To serve like a man' – Ukraine's Euromaidan and the Questions of Gender, Nationalism and Generational Change; Sabine Roßmann12. The Conception of Revolutionary Youth in Maksim Gor'kii's The Mother and Zakhar Prilepin's San'kia; Matthias Meindl13. 'Polittusovka' – An Alternative Public Space of Young Politicians in Contemporary Russia; Anna ZhelninaPART IV: CONTESTED AGENCY: CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND EVERYDAY PRACTICES14. Youth Cultures in Contemporary Russia: Memory, Politics and Solidarity; Elena Omelchenko and Guzel Sabirova15. Public Discourse and Volunteer Militias in Post-Soviet Russia; Gleb Tsipursky16. Battlefield Internet: Young Russian SNS Users and New-Media State Propaganda;Vera Zvereva17. 'Flashy' Pictures: Social Activist Comics and Russian Youth; José Alaniz18. Youth in the Post-Soviet Space. Is the Central Asian Case Really so Different?; Stefan B. Kirmse

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XII, 374 p.
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
• Schlagworte: adolescence • Childhood • civic engagement • Comic • Eastern Europe • Europe • Figuration • Gender • Generation • Globalization • Internet • Memory • Nation • Nationalism • Political activism • Politics • Popular Cultures • post-socialism • Socialism • subcultures • Youth • Youth Cultures
• ISBN-10: 1-137-38513-8 / 1137385138
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-38513-0 / 9781137385130