Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia Martin Demant Frederiksen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frederiksen, Martin Demant, 1981-

Series:

Global Youth

Global youth

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Marginality, Social--Georgia (Republic).

Marginality, Social.

Young men--Georgia (Republic)--Economic conditions--21st century.

Young men.

Young men--Georgia (Republic)--Social conditions--21st century.

Georgia (Republic)--Social conditions--21st century.

Georgia (Republic).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (214 p.)

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2013

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the midst of societal optimism, how do young men cope with the loss of a vibrant future? Young Men, Time, and Boredom in the Republic of Georgia provides a vivid exploration of the tension between subjective and societal time and the ways these tensions create experiences of marginality among under- or unemployed young men in the Republic of Georgia.Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, Martin Demant Frederiksen shows how the Georgian state has attempted to make the so-called post-Soviet transition a thing of the past as it creates new ideas about the future. Yet

Contents:

Introduction

Walking a ruined city

Devils and brotherhoods

The White Georgian

A tale of two artists

Subjunctive moods and imperative reminders

Subjunctive materialities

Social afterlives and the creation of temporal margins.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-196) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781439909201

1439909202

OCLC:

845254764