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101637
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This paper presents the results of a survey conducted in 2008 to examine the cultural practices and preferences of 'Russian' youth in Israel. Data was collected via structured questionnaires (187) and semi-structured in-depth interviews (21). Respondents were aged 16-24 and represented both the youth born in Israel to immigrant parents and those who immigrated before the age of 12. The results suggest that the cultural integration of 'Russian' youth in Israel does not follow a linear process. There is a large group of youngsters who choose to preserve their mixed or Russian cultural identity (e.g. in social networking, music tastes and entertainment) for reasons other than Hebrew language difficulties.
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101295
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2010.
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Kyrgyz government policy following independence called for the improvement and expansion of higher education as an important strategy to successfully enter the international market economy. Young people were to become a resource for economic growth and prosperity. However, even though the number of higher education institutions and enrolment levels have dramatically increased, the quality of secondary education, as well as the demand for professional and skilled labour, have decreased. These factors pose challenges for the organization of higher education and the quality of universities. Today, eager, but often unskilled, youth find themselves in university settings where many become disenchanted with formal instruction and seek other activities, purposes and futures This article describes and discusses these dynamics witnessed as part of a larger case study on universities and university reform in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, between 2007-09
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129800
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2014.
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Since the early 2000s, the Chinese military has been engaged in the production of military- and war-themed cultural products which increasingly employ new media and new technologies. Many of these products specifically target children and youth, and many are also a result of collaborations between the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and commercial forces. This article offers a preliminary exploration of how such PLA-civilian productions attempt to package and market war and the military to contemporary Chinese children and youth. It compares these current endeavours to previous depictions of war and the military in the youth culture of the Maoist period, and reflects on what this comparison can tell us about recent changes in official as well as popular conceptualizations of childhood, youth, and violence in the People's Republic of China. The analysis demonstrates that contemporary PLA products for children and youth display positive attitudes toward the military and toward officially sanctioned military violence. However, these products also subscribe to new public sensitivities about children and their involvement in acts of brutality, thereby reflecting the changing needs and interests of the PLA and of the Chinese Communist Party in the post-Cold War, post-Tiananmen era.
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091675
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2009.
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This essay examines the power-evasive reduction of "race," racial conflict, and racial subordination from the terrain of the social, material, and structural to the "private" realm of affect and emotions, in an effort to explain how neoliberalism operates in the everyday lives of U.S.-born Latino and Latin American migrant youth, particularly, young, working-class Puerto Rican and Brazilian women in Newark, New Jersey. A main argument of this project is that urban neoliberalism has been complicit in generating new racial configurations in the United States and that, in the case of populations of Latin American and Spanish-speaking Caribbean backgrounds, such articulations of difference have deployed a variation of "racial democracy" ideologies. This "cartography of racial democracy" gives credence to denunciations of racism or racial subordination as long as they are launched in the realm of intimate relationships and attraction-as aspects of "affect" or an "urban erotics"-that frequently overshadows and flattens the structures of urban neoliberalism that require that individual worth is measured in relation to how one "packages" oneself culturally to be profitable.
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144348
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The shopping mall entered Central Asia's commercial sector as a result of the economic transformation of post-Soviet space. Constructed near the centre of the city, the shopping mall overwrites the urban landscape, dominating it as a symbol of modernity. It functions as a gateway of global consumerist culture to the Eurasian steppe. Using the MEGA shopping mall in Aktobe, in western Kazakhstan, as an example, this article shows that the building acts as a stage for the construction of a new social and cultural space. This study focuses on the ways in which young women interact with the mall's spaces. The mall turns out to be a playground not only for children, but also for the whole younger generation, who come to this unique place to see and be seen. The mall became a hot spot of youth culture in the post-socialist worker's city by offering more than a mere shelter from dust and snow storms on the steppe. The available amenities made it a favourite place for meeting, consuming and dreaming. Young women especially are attracted to MEGA to experience the newest fashions and build social relationships.
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077970
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2007.
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The last two decades have witnessed a surge in studies of youth culture and social practice. In Africa, as elsewhere, this body of youth-centred research and writing has devoted considerable attention to specific groups within a given country's young population, while largely neglecting others seen to lack either culturally innovative or politically subversive traits. Youths in large cities and young combatants involved in insurgency or counter-insurgency have shared centre stage in studies of youthful Africa. This article argues for broadening the research agenda of African youth studies, calling for increased attention to the interpretive work performed by provincial youths as they try to understand and hopefully alter the future prospects of their communities in the new century. It shows how ideas about the meanings of globalisation and 'the millennium', intertwined with experiences of a recent refugee 'crisis', are shaping Guinean youths' socio-political reflections and yearnings. In doing so, it stresses just how complicated and cosmopolitan 'provincial' life, particularly for young people, has become in Guinea's forest region, as well as the variety and sophistication of the historical 'materials' and interpretive schemes through which these youths depict and judge possible local futures.
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