Open AccessTransformation of "citizenship" among pro- and post-NASHI activists in St Petersburg
Author(s) -
Алена Николаевна Кравцова
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
monitoring obŝestvennogo mneniâ: èkonomičeskie i socialʹnye peremeny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.359
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 2219-5467
pISSN - 1815-8617
DOI - 10.14515/monitoring.2019.1.05
Subject(s) - citizenship , interview , solidarity , sociology , youth participation , perception , global citizenship , gender studies , st petersburg , civic engagement , political science , psychology , social science , politics , russian federation , law , neuroscience , regional science , anthropology
The paper is devoted to the analysis of youth’s understanding of citizenship which includes young people’s self-identification as citizens, peculiarities of youth interpretations of the notion of citizen and the practices of citizenship implementation. The article describes transformations of the understanding of citizenship in youth environment through the analysis of young people’s settings, preferences, social participation practices and involvement in activist communities, perceptions of events which happen in their city, country or in the world, as well as motives of their engagement with youth movements. The empirical basis of the study is the data of several projects conducted by the Center for Youth Studies from 2011 to 2017. Each of these projects aimed at studying specific transformations of solidarity youth movements - pro-Kremlin movements, using qualitative methods, namely overt observation, in-depth biographical interviewing and partly the case-study method.