Alistair Ross

Understanding the Constructions of Identities by Young New Europeans

Kaleidoscopic Selves

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines how young people in thenew European states construct their identities, based on an original and unique study of a thousand young people, aged between twelve and nineteen, from fifteen European countries.The book illustrates the complexity and depth of young people's political conceptions in these countries, and amplifies and extends the classic works on young people's political socialisation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780415707404
• ISBN-10: 0415707404
• Artikelnr.: 40542551

Autorenporträt

Alistair Ross is Emeritus Professor of Education at London Metropolitan University, UK, and Jean Monnet Professor of Citizenship Education in Europe.

Inhaltsangabe

Constructing Identities: The Younger Generation in the New Europe Part 1:
Conceptualising Identities National and Ethnic Constructions in Europe.
Talking with Young People about Identities. The Development of the New
Europe. Identity Discourses and Young People Part 2: National Identities
The Nation as a Cultural Entity. The Nation as a Political Vacuum. The
Internal 'Other'. Leaving and Staying. Generational Differences and the
Nation Part 3: European Identities European Identities: Institutional
Values. Europeans and the Characteristics of European Culture. European
Identities: The Borderlands. Generational Change and European Identities
Part 4: Contingent Identities Country and Europe: Institutional and
Political Othering. Country and Europe: Cultural Othering. Kaleidoscopic
Identities.