Youth in the Former Soviet South
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 peoples 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.
Stefan B. Kirmse is a Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Department of Eastern European History, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Germany. His research and teaching focuses on Russia and post-Soviet Central Asia.
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Youth in the Former Soviet South
Everyday Lives between Experimentation and Regulation
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Stefan B. Kirmse
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Alan J. DeYoung Educational Policy Studies and Evaluation, University of Kentucky, Lexington, USA.
Hans Ibold, Department of Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.
Stefan B. Kirmse, Department of Eastern European History, Humboldt-Universittzu Berlin, Germany.
Anna Kirey, Center for Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA.
Eric Lepisto, Independent Researcher, USA.
Weeda Mehran, Afghanistan Independent Human Rights Commission, Kabul, Afghanistan.
Ken Roberts, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK.
Sophie Roche, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, and Zentrum Moderner Orient, Berlin, Germany.
Philipp Schrder, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany.
Manja Stephan, Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-Universittzu Berlin, Germany.
Christopher M. Whitsel, North Dakota State University, Fargo, USA.
Cai Wilkinson, Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK.
Stefan B. Kirmse
Philosophische Fakultt I, Institut fr Geschichtswissenschaften, Humboldt Universitt zu Berlin, Germany
The study of social and cultural transformation in Central Asia and the Caucasus is usually placed within one of a number of established frameworks, such as transition, post-colonialism, state and nation-building or Islamic revival. Young people are admittedly addressed by some of these discussions. Yet, the idea of youth as a social group and a point of entry for the analysis of post-Soviet change and everyday life is largely absent from existing literature.
