Iana Krupets Presented a Report at Samara Sociological Readings
Deputy Director at Centre for Youth Studies Iana Krupets participated in a conference 'Samara Sociological Readings' with the report on modern dorms of civic engagment of the youth, their specifics and goals.
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On April 10 was held the first Samara Sociological Readings 'Vectors of Social Activity of Russian Youth'. The conference was organized by Samara National Research University named after academician S.P. Korolev (Samara). The goal of the conference was understanding the diversity of development vectors for the country’s future, by identifying the potential and barriers to self‑realization for the younger generation, and by studying the values, attitudes, and practices of youth social engagement.
Iana Krupets, Deputy Director at Centre for Youth Studies, took part in the plenary session of the conference. Our colleague presented a report titled 'Youth Civic Engagement in Modern Russia: New Challenges and Opportunities,' which examines modern forms of youth participation — agency‑based, depoliticized, and functioning under structural constraints — as well as their characteristics and goals. The data for analysis consisted of interviews with activists (aged 20–45) from St. Petersburg who are organisers or active participants in urban initiatives and projects in the fields of ecology, conscious consumption, animal welfare, social protection, culture, educational activities, and social entrepreneurship. The study showed that while civic engagement today takes on more alternative forms, it remains an unchanged part of young people’s life world.
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Civic engagement is a constitutive element of the life world of young people who are focused on producing public goods. At the same time, the key goals of the engagement can be aimed both at social transformation and at the development of the activist themselves, at realizing their potential within the logic of ethos of the neoliberal self‑entrepreneur. These goals are often successfully combined. Despite the changed geopolitical and institutional conditions, young people continue to implement bottom-up socially oriented projects and initiatives, primarily based on the personal interests and personal engagement of young people. They use various formats: both formal and institutionalised, and non‑formal; both non‑profit and commercial.
