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Author:   Hilary Pilkington ,  Gary Pollock
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.40cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.416kg
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9781119062363

ISBN 10:   1119062365
Pages:   268
Publication Date:   07 August 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Acknowledgements vii Series editor's acknowledgements viii 'Politics are bollocks': youth, politics and activism in contemporary Europe 1 Hilary Pilkington and Gary Pollock Part One: Footprints: political heritage and political socialization Making sense of the 'difficult' past: transmission of political heritage and memory-work among young people across Europe 36 Anton Popov and Dusan Deak Memory transmission and political socialization in post-socialist Hungary 53 Domonkos Sik Political discussions with family and friends: exploring the impact of political distance 72 Klaus Levinsen and Carsten Yndigegn Part Two: The end of politics? Rethinking youth activism Youth participation in context: the impact of youth transition regimes on political action strategies in Europe 92 Roger Soler-i-Marti and Mariona Ferrer-Fons Two worlds of participation: young people and politics in Germany 118 Britta Busse, Alexandra Hashem-Wangler and Jochen Tholen Populism, ideology and contradiction: mapping young people's political views 141 Gary Pollock, Tom Brock and Mark Ellison The madness that is the world: young activists' emotional reasoning and their participation in a local Occupy movement 167 Phil Mizen Part Three: A turn to the radical right? Support for far right ideology and anti-migrant attitudes among youth in Europe: A comparative analysis 183 Inta Mieri?a and Ilze Koro?eva 'Loud and proud': youth and the politics of silencing 206 Robert Grimm and Hilary Pilkington Golden Dawn, austerity and young people: the rise of fascist extremism among young people in contemporary Greek society 231 Alexandra Koronaiou, Evangelos Lagos, Alexandros Sakellariou, Stelios Kymionis and Irini Chiotaki-Poulou Notes on contributors 250 Index 257

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Hilary Pilkington is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. She has been coordinator of a number of large, collaborative research projects including the FP7 MYPLACE project. She has published widely on youth and on post-socialist societies including recently co-authoring Punk in Russia: Cultural Mutation from the ?Useless? to the ?Moronic? (2014) and Russia?s Skinheads: Exploring and Rethinking Subcultural Lives (2010). Gary Pollock is Professor and Head of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University. Focused on youth research for more than 20 years, Pollock?s current interests are in utilizing survey data to examine young people in society in terms of their social and political outlook as well as their employment and family trajectories. He is co-editor of Young People in Risk Society (2002).

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