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Subject: Special Edition of the Journal of Youth Studies - Youth and social
change in post-socialist Eastern Europe
Special Edition of the Journal of Youth Studies (2010) Youth and social
change in post-socialist Eastern Europe Guest Editors: Charlie Walker
(University of Oxford) and Svetlana Stephenson (London Metropolitan
University) ______________________________________________________________
The guest editors are inviting the submission of abstracts for possible
inclusion in a special edition of the Journal of Youth Studies to be
published in 2010.
. If interested, in the first instance, please submit an abstract of
no
more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] by 5th June 2009.
Youth studies has traditionally provided a rich, interdisciplinary forum for
the exploration both of processes of social change and of a range of social
identities and divisions. In recent years, such explorations have centred on
theories of reflexive modernity, pointing variously to processes of
individualisation and risk, the erosion of social identities, and the
destandardisation of biographies and the life course. While the structural
and cultural shifts which have purportedly given rise to these developments
- in particular towards the dominance of neo-liberalism, less secure
employment relations and changing formations of gender and family - have
taken place in Western European societies over a protracted period, in
post-socialist Eastern Europe they have taken more extreme forms, and have
produced profound dislocations in all aspects of social and economic life.
In this Special Issue of the Journal of Youth Studies, we wish to explore
the emerging contours of social change and social divisions in Eastern
Europe by focusing on the ways in which young people negotiate a range of
identities and transitions through a period of social transformation.
Existing studies indicate that, as in Western Europe, while the dislocating
experience of post- socialism may have led to processes of disembedding in
young people's lives and identities, it may also have engendered a
re-embedding of old divisions, dependencies and ways of doing things. As
such, explorations of young people's lives in post-socialism provide an
opportunity to examine not only the emerging shape of social inequalities
and social change in the region, but also, to interrogate and reflect back
upon some of the central claims of contemporary Western social theory. In
particular, the study of young people in Eastern Europe provides rich ground
for engagement with current debates about the continuing significance of
divisions and identities rooted in class, gender, ethnicity and place, as
well as of social formations such as kinship, the family and community.
Thus, we invite papers which critically engage with Western theories of
social change through empirical investigations of young people's lives in
post-socialist Eastern Europe.
Submissions to the Special Issue might explore, but should not be limited
to, the following themes:
. 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
Dr Charlie Walker and Dr Svetlana Stephenson, 11th May 2009
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