Growing Up in the North Caucasus: Society, Family, Religion and Education

ISBN-13: 9780815369158 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 206 str.

Hungary) Irina (Central European University Molodikova; Hungary) Alan (Central European University Watt

Opis

Investigating changes in upbringing in the North Caucasus, a region notorious for violent conflict, this book explores the lives of the generation born after the dissolution of the USSR who grew up under conditions of turmoil and rapid social change. It avoids the ‘traditional’ presentation of the North Caucasus as a locus of violence, and instead presents the life of people in the region through the lens of the young generation growing up there.

Recenzje

"The authors demonstrate that modernization, urbanization, and displacement have undermined customs and resulted in social changes, which are more evident among the Christians (Ossetians and Russians) and city-dwellers than among the Muslims and villagers. Their discussion of family histories is one of the most interesting. They uncovered startlingly large differences between the Ossetian and Cossack narratives on the one hand, and Chechen narratives on the other: the former emphasized military glory; the latter—repressions and deportations."
Victor Shnirel'man, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Education Policy in the North Caucasus from Russian Empire till post –Soviet time 2. Human dimension of education quality- children at situation of risk in the North Caucasus 3. Religious Education in the post-Soviet North Caucasus 4. Family, Modernization, archaization and upbringing 5. Traditions, Customs and identity in upbringing 6. Ethnic Caucasians and Ethnic Russians the construction of stereotypes 7. Future prospects: youth aspirations and government actions 8. Conclusion