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Subject: Call for Papers - Youth and social change across borders: emerging
identities and divisions in Eastern and Western Europe
Youth and social change across borders: emerging identities and divisions in
Eastern and Western Europe
27th - 28th March 2009
St. Antony's College, University of Oxford
Youth studies has traditionally provided a rich, interdisciplinary forum for
the exploration of a range of social identities and divisions rooted in
class, gender, ethnicity and place. It has also been the site on which
contemporary social theory - pointing in recent years to late-modern
processes of globalisation, individualisation and risk - have received some
of their most illustrative applications, as well as their most incisive
critiques. This conference asks what the study of young people in and from
post-Socialist Eastern Europe can tell us about the emerging dimensions of
social inequality and social change both in Eastern and Western European
societies. Building on youth studies'
long standing critique of popular discourses constructing youth 'as/in
trouble', the conference wishes to move debate decisively away from the
common perception of young people in post-Socialist countries as a 'lost
generation'.
Instead, we invite papers focusing on the active ways in which young people
negotiate transitions and 'careers' in a variety of life domains -in
education, work, migration, family, housing, leisure and sexuality - while
at the same time being sensitive to the structural and cultural processes
shaping the resources and subject positions available to different young
people in different times and places. In the context of a wider Europe, it
is particularly timely to address questions about the lives of young Eastern
Europeans, not only in new EU member states and in countries bordering the
EU, but also in those Western European states which are a common destination
for migrant workers and students.
Papers might address, but should not be limited to, the following themes:
In Russia and Eastern Europe:
. Class, gender, ethnicity, and place in youth transitions to
adulthood
. Rural-urban and centre-periphery divisions amongst young people
. Young people and work: informal earning and new forms of
employment
. Young people's sexualities
. Household and family formation
. (Sub)cultural formations, consumption, and leisure
. Youth-operated NGOs and NGOs working with young people
In Western Europe:
. The ethnicization/racialization of Eastern Europeans in the UK
. Household and family formation amongst Eastern European migrants
. 'Lifestyles' of Eastern European migrants
. Eastern European migrants' labour market participation
. A 'common' identity amongst Eastern European migrants?
Preference will be given to papers which go beyond descriptions of what
young people 'do', and are able to engage either with contemporary social
theory germane to their topic of study, or with issues relating to social
policy and/or the third sector. Abstracts of 250 words should be sent to the
conference organisers Charlie Walker (University of Oxford) and Svetlana
Stephenson (London Metropolitan University) at
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