Totalitarian Youth Movement as a Career Mechanism: The Case in Czechoslovakia

Kubat, Daniel

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“…State institutions were often seen as operating in their own interests, rewarding party officials and loyal party members but penalising those who raised criticisms and demanded political change. The social contract, guaranteeing full employment, free health care and education alongside cheap housing and consumer goods in return for public participation and outward displays of political conformity, was sometimes represented as a means of keeping citizens passive and compliant (Wilson 1992, see also Kubat 1965, Golan 1970.…”

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Creating reflexive volunteers? Young people's participation in Czech hospital volunteer programmes

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Journal of Youth Studies

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Drawing on a recent ethnographic study of contemporary hospital volunteering in the Czech Republic, this paper explores the changing ideologies underpinning youth volunteering in the Czech context and shows how they may be linked to broader socio-economic and political transformations that have taken place in Czech society following the collapse of state socialism in 1989. Volunteering discourses in the contemporary period promote processes of individualisation, and the experiences of young volunteers highlight volunteering as an activity enabling the construction of distinctive personal identities and biographies. The article examines the extent to which these developments can be illuminated by the theory of reflexive modernisation. It is argued that this thesis can conceptually elucidate the emphasis on reflexivity in the creation of young people's contemporary volunteer identities. At the same time, however, young volunteers' reflexive practices also create the ground for the reformulation of certain wellestablished health hierarchies and gender inequalities linked to the socialist era.

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Creating reflexive volunteers? Young people's participation in Czech hospital volunteer programmes

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Totalitarian Youth Movement as a Career Mechanism: The Case in Czechoslovakia

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Creating reflexive volunteers? Young people's participation in Czech hospital volunteer programmes

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