The Wild 1990s. „Transformation Nostalgia” Among the Czech Student Generation of 1989

Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://brill.com/view/journals/eceu/46/1/article-p111_111.xml" target="_blank" >https://brill.com/view/journals/eceu/46/1/article-p111_111.xml</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18763308-04601007" target="_blank" >10.1163/18763308-04601007</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Wild 1990s. „Transformation Nostalgia” Among the Czech Student Generation of 1989
Original language description
Based on an oral history project that interviewed one hundred former Czech students active during the „Velvet Revolution” of 1989, this study investigates a motif that emerged particularly strongly among respondents. Many evinced positive memories of the perceived unrestrained freedom of the 1990s, here termed „transformation nostalgia”. The study traces the object of positive memories expressed by narrators in the context of their awareness of the increasingly critical public reception of the post-socialist democratic transformation in the Czech Republic and argues they employ two main narrative strategies: extricating their personal experience from wider political developments and performing a form of „self-criticism” in relation to false hopes placed in the political solutions of the time. The article thus aims to contribute to the ongoing process of the historicization of the 1990s and the democratic transformations in the former Eastern Bloc by examining the memories of this decade expressed by members of the generation that came of age and entered adulthood just as the socialist regime collapsed.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Project
<a href="/en/project/GA17-14167S" target="_blank" >GA17-14167S: The Student Generation of 1989 in Longitudinal Perspective: Biographical Interviews after Twenty Years</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2019
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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