From ‘inheritance’ to individualization: disembedding working-class youth transitions in post-Soviet Russia

Walker, Charlie

doi:10.1080/13676260903081681

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“…Skelton 2005;Walker 2009), the institutionalization of individualization has instead received some support. Wyn and Woodman (2006), for instance, reporting on young Australians' transitions to adulthood, note how neoliberal state policies, which have embraced the idea of the individualized individual, have produced places for youth in society described by the authors as 'inflexible' and 'exclusionary' (p511), far from the imagined model of reflexive choice and freedom (see also Kelly 2000).…”

Section: Institutional Individualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Individualization? Peer-to-peer Action in Youth Transitions

Cuzzocrea

Collins

2015

YOUNG

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In this article we propose the notion of collaborative individualization (henceforth, C.I.) as a means of characterizing young people’s attempts to define their identities as simultaneously self-reliant and in need of support and collaboration. Our arguments are based on the findings of a transnational case study: a recent Council of Europe policy project called Edgeryders, an online platform whose participants were invited to discuss their experience of attempting to achieve ‘fully independent adulthood’. In light of findings which suggest that individualization amongst the young might take forms which are more collaborative than self-focused, we argue that youth scholars ought to rethink the assumptions made about the nature of individualization in youth transitions. We propose that such theorizations should embrace the potential described by C.I. in order to provide constructive responses to young people’s changing socio-economic needs, and refocus attention on young people’s situatedness within the communities many are demonstrably committed to working with and for.

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Section: Institutional Individualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Collaborative Individualization? Peer-to-peer Action in Youth Transitions

Cuzzocrea

Collins

2015

YOUNG

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“…30 However, it is possible to argue that young women living in provincial Russia do face particular constraints. Walker (2009) has discussed the problems facing young people entering the job market resulting from a lack of access to education fit for employment in the new post-Soviet market service driven economy.…”

Section: Women's Human Rights In Provincial Russia 1861mentioning

confidence: 99%

Locating Women's Human Rights in Post-Soviet Provincial Russia

Turbine

2012

Europe-Asia Studies

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“…This is not so much a cultural, as an ethnographic turn in the scholarship on postsocialist work and often involves native scholarship. Walker (, ) and Salmenniemi () examine the intersection of class, work, youth, social mobility, gender, consumption and rural–urban migration in Russia, bringing a performative and interactionalist lens to analysis. Kesküla () and Rotkirch, Tkach, and Zdravomyslova (), provide details of the actual organizational and relational processes of labour disembedding and alienation in the postsocialist period as well as documenting the encounter of transnational capital, postsocialist workers and re‐embedding processes of governmentalization more closely (Tóth, n.d.).…”

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An agenda for research on work and class in the postsocialist world

Morris

2017

Sociology Compass

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This article reviews the scholarly treatment of work and class in postsocialist states. It traces how class discourses under socialism led to a lack of meaningful working class studies in the postsocialist academy. It offers as an agenda for future research three points of departure: (a) greater confrontation of the one‐sided discourse on class in these societies and the academy itself (class blindness of research). (b) The value in studying postsocialist societies both comparatively to global North and South, and as an intermediate positioning for worker exploitation and responses in global capitalism. (c) To achieve the first 2 agenda items, a more grounded methodological approach proceeding from the lived experience of class and work is proposed. Current research on social networks, memory studies and personhood, the informal economy, deindustrialization, and the “domestication” of neoliberalism show that empirically grounded work on postsocialist working classes can make important contributions to wider social science debates. Studying the “losers” of postcommunist transition can tell us much about populist politics, the rise of the global working class outside the global North and the nature of global capitalist exploitation more generally. In addition, this agenda serves as an important point of departure from the dominant middle class focus of research in postsocialism.

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From ‘inheritance’ to individualization: disembedding working-class youth transitions in post-Soviet Russia

Cited by 16 publications

References 17 publications

Collaborative Individualization? Peer-to-peer Action in Youth Transitions

Collaborative Individualization? Peer-to-peer Action in Youth Transitions

Locating Women's Human Rights in Post-Soviet Provincial Russia

An agenda for research on work and class in the postsocialist world

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