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101292
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This article discusses experiences of cultural globalization among young Muslims in Osh, Kyrgyzstan, and male students in particular. Drawing on studies of globalization and youth culture, the article suggests that the everyday lives of boys and young men can be understood as negotiations in a 'marketplace for styles and identities'. The students engage with an unprecedented range of cultural repertoires, from 'true Islam' and Christian messages to global capitalism and Russian rap music. Based on extensive ethnographic research, the article discusses young people's interactions with transnational actors and media images, and their appropriation of a number of 'spaces' made available by globalization. In commercial outlets such as Internet cafeacutes, in religious circles and sports clubs, male students experiment with styles and identities, often without experiencing contradictions. However, their choices are not random. Their reception and utilization of 'global' cultural goods and ideas are constrained by their socio-economic, linguistic, ethnic, religious and gender backgrounds and by various rules at the local, regional and national levels.
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187298
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This essay discusses the interplay of nationalism and internationalism amongst Soviet youth from the 1960s to the early 1980s, arguing that there was much that united the language, underlying concepts and problems of these political agendas. More than that: they were mutually constitutive, while mobilising youth and generating enthusiasm and anger on a large scale. At the same time, national and international questions became more republicanised in these years: they were experienced and tackled differently across the republics. To show this, the essay discusses a range of archival materials and published sources from Soviet Armenia, Central Asia and Ukraine.
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103135
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2009.
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This article explores the participation of university students in non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other forms of association in the city of Osh, Kyrgyzstan. While the literature tends to criticize donor interventions in the post-Soviet space, an analysis of donor-funded youth projects calls for a more differentiated evaluation. It is argued that youth-oriented associations appeal to the students of Osh because these associations have created much needed 'youth spaces'. In some cases, however, the appeal has little to do with the missions of the projects. Whatever the blueprints prepared by foreign donors, youth-oriented clubs and NGOs provide young people with opportunities for entrepreneurship, for leisure pursuits and for experimenting with their dreams and fantasies. Offering a case study of a group of students who have joined a donor-funded NGO, Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE), the article then charts the students' appropriation of this NGO.
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