Presentation – Youth Cultures of Socialism and Postsocialism Lifestyle, Conformism and Rebellion

The premiere of the new issue of Critique and Humanism journal took place on April 7, 2015, in the New Conference Hall of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” organized by HSSF – Sofia with the cooperation of Cultural Centre of SU “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Volume 43 dedicated to Youth Cultures of Socialism and Post-socialism: Lifestyles, Conformism and Rebellion (edited by Elitza Stanoeva and Tom Junes) is organized in three rubrics with a total of fifteen papers by Bulgarian and foreign authors. The event was moderated by Elitza Stanoeva while Tom Junes presented the concept of the issue and the choice of topics for its compilation. Invited to be reviewers of the volume, Rositza Guentcheva (New Bulgarian University) and Galina Goncharova (Sofia University) shared their own readings of the papers and outlined possible thematic links among them. They both appraised the contribution of the volume to our understanding of cultural processes under socialism and social transformations in the post-1989 period in the perspective of the youth experience in the dual mode of socialization and divergence from the valid societal norms.

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In the frame of Civic Practice for Students and Teachers “Post 2011 protests” project funded by the NGO Programme in Bulgaria under theEuropean Economic Area Financial Mechanism 2009-2014www.ngogrants.bg