Youth in the 1980s in Turkey: Children of Crisis

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Can, Işın
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Turkey is an arena of social struggles for young people who have often been repressed, marginalized, invalidated,isolated and stereotyped by the dominant discourses that shape the existence of youth. This could be related to the rapidly changing circumstances that anticipate the milieu of frequent crises Turkey has been associated with. This thesis is an attempt to contribute to an understanding of the social patterns that are reflections of the mediated crisis and their role in identity formation processes of youth in the 1980s. It focuses on the post-1980 generation in Turkey. The study analyzes constructions and representations of youth in Turkey, particularly between 1980 and 1990. Institutional ethnography was used in order to understand the emergence of the post-1980 generation, as well as to draw a picture of politics and culture in the 1980s, focusing on identity politics to comprehend the public discourse in which this generation was represented.
Academies and Learned Societies., Generation
http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/3/12612064/index.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19531
Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis

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I. Can, “Youth in the 1980s in Turkey: Children of Crisis,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.
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