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This book examines the life experiences formed during the process of post-socialist transformation in Lithuania by analysing the peculiarities of the life course of the cohort of young people born between 1980 and 2000.
Sommario
1. Introduction; 2. Generational Identity of Lithuanians Born Between 1980 and 2000; 3. Social Policy and Life Course Regimes: Post-Authoritarian Transformations in Lithuania; 4. The Changing Transition to Adulthood in Twenty-First Century Lithuania: Structural Settings and Contexts; 5. Transition to Adulthood in Lithuania: Individual Experiences and Concepts; 6. The Social Character of Lithuanians Born Between 1980 and 2000; 7. Social Change and Current Challenges of Social Careers; 8. Living in the Mobile World: Mobility Decisions, Support Networks and Intergenerational Relationships; 9. The Making of a Personal Life;
Index
Info autore
Laimute Žilinskien¿ is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her academic interests focus on Soviet- and post-Soviet-era memories in life stories and family memory. She is co-editor (with Melanie Ilic) of
Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania - Generational Experiences (Routledge, 2022).
Sigita Kraniauskien¿ is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Change, Klaipeda University, Lithuania. Her research includes transition to adulthood, generational identity and biographic methodology.
Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published widely in the area of Soviet women's history and the history of Soviet repressions. She has served as consultant on a number of international research projects. She is the author of
Soviet Women - Everyday Lives (Routledge, 2020) and
Women in the Soviet Dissident Movements (Routledge, forthcoming).
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This book examines the life experiences formed during the process of post-socialist transformation in Lithuania by analysing the peculiarities of the life course of the cohort of young people born between 1980 and 2000.
