Description
Book SynopsisBased on extensive fieldwork in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv, Forging Rights in a New Democracy explores high school-aged students' understanding of rights and justice, and how they interpret and appropriate discourses of citizenship and civic values in the school setting as well as on the streets in the context of peaceful mass protests.
Trade Review"Fournier's greatest strength is her ability to look beyond the stereotypical model of democracy in the West and the post-Soviet space to illustrate and account for the views and actions of her research participants. . . . She also is able to show how not only democratic practices but also their alternatives are repertoires that are enacted or performed by students in the school, and she traces how these repertoires circulate to students and the school context." *
Anthropology & Education Quarterly *
"Through ethnographic fieldwork in high schools, both public and private, Fournier offers rich details about how Ukraine's young people are positioning themselves vis-à-vis one another, their elders, authorities, and the state. Hers is a sympathetic view that is oftentimes very funny, catching young people as they really are, including their antics inside and outside the classroom." * Melissa Caldwell, University of California, Santa Cruz *
"The topic is timely and relevant. Fournier counters the prevailing argument voiced by political scientists, the media, and ideologues that Ukraine is in 'transition' from one kind of political system to another by showing how-at least in students' ideations and expressions-Ukraine's younger generation embrace many different positions simultaneously." * Amy Stambach, University of Wisconsin-Madison *
Table of ContentsNote on Transliteration and Translation
1. Young Citizens and the Meanings of Rights in a Globalizing World
2. Order, Excess, and the Construction of the Patriot
3. Seeking Rights, Performing the Outlaw
4. The "Bandit State": From State Force to the Violent Pedagogies of Capitalism
5. Citizenship Between Western and Soviet Modernities
6. From Revolution to Conversation?
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
