Nayak Anoop - Ethnic Belonging Gender And Cultural Practices - Youth Identities In Contemporary Russia - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: How are youth cultural identities rooted in gender ethnicity and place? What resources do young people from ethnic minorities use in creating their cultural identities? Drawing upon interdisciplinary research Ulrike Ziemer's case study demonstrates the different ways in which young people from ethnic minorities respond to the social political and cultural transformations of post - Soviet Russia and provides a detailed analysis of how local vs. global relations are experienced outside the West. Relying on extensive ethnographic fieldwork Ziemer explores the complex processes of identity formation and cultural experiences among young Armenians in Krasnodar krai and young Adyghs in the Republic of Adyghea. Both ethnic groups Armenians and Adyghs have a minority status in Russia yet Adyghs are indigenous to the region while Armenians constitute a diaspora people. Ulrike Ziemer is the first to examine specifically Armenian and Adygh youth identities in the context of everyday life experiences in post - Soviet Russia.
Title: Ethnic Belonging Gender And Cultural Practices - Youth Identities In Contemporary Russia
Author(s): Nayak Anoop
Publisher: Ibidem - Verlag Jessica Haunschild U Christian Schon
Barcode: 9783838201528
Pages: 260 Pages
Publication Date: 8/1/2011
Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Category: Age Groups: Adolescents