Ethnic Belonging, Gender, and Cultural Practices: Youth Identities in Contemporary Russia

· Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society Book 103 · Columbia University Press
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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.

This book is the first specific examination of Armenian and Adygh youth identities in the context of everyday life experiences in post-Soviet Russia.
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 fro...

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The author:Ulrike Ziemer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., studied Russian, Politics, and Sociology at the universities of Bath and Birmingham. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Migration and Diasporic Citizenship at the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS), School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES), University College London. Ziemer’s most recent publications appeared in Europe-Asia Studies, Nationalities Papers, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and the European Journal of Cultural Studies. The foreword author:Anoop Nayak is Professor of Social and Cultural Geography at the University of Newcastle, UK.
The author:Ulrike Ziemer, B.A., M.A., Ph.D., studied Russian, Politics, and Sociology at the universities of Bath and Birmingham. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Migration and Diasporic Citizenship at the Centre for East European Language Based Area Studies (CEELBAS), School of Slavonic...

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