1st Edition
Lithuanian Society in Transition Social Transformations and Generational Identity
1. Introduction, Laima Žilinskienė, Sigita Kraniauskienė and Melanie Ilic; 2. Generational Identity of Lithuanians Born Between 1980 and 2000, Laima Žilinskienė and Sigita Kraniauskienė; 3. Social Policy and Life-Course Regimes: Post-Authoritarian Transformations in Lithuania, Jekaterina Navicke; 4. The Changing Transition to Adulthood in Twenty-First Century Lithuania: Structural Settings and Contexts, Sigita Kraniauskienė and Goda Damaševičiūtė; 5. Transition to Adulthood in Lithuania: Individual Experiences and Concepts, Sigita Kraniauskienė; 6. The Social Character of Lithuanians Born Between 1980 and 2000, Laima Žilinskienė; 7. Social Change and Current Challenges of Social Careers, Laima Žilinskienė and Goda Damaševičiūtė; 8. Living in the Mobile World: Mobility Decisions, Support Networks and Intergenerational Relationships, Irena Emilija Juozeliūnienė and Irma Budginaitė-Mačkinė; 9. The Making of a Personal Life, Irena Emilija Juozeliūnienė and Irma Budginaitė-Mačkinė; Index
Biography
Laimute Žilinskienė is Associate Professor at the Institute of Sociology and Social Work, Faculty of Philosophy, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Her academic interests focus on Soviet- and post-Soviet-era memories in life stories and family memory. She is co-editor (with Melanie Ilic) of Soviet and Post-Soviet Lithuania – Generational Experiences (Routledge, 2022).
Sigita Kraniauskienė is Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Social Change, Klaipeda University, Lithuania. Her research includes transition to adulthood, generational identity and biographic methodology.
Melanie Ilic is Professor of Soviet History at the University of Gloucestershire, UK. She has published widely in the area of Soviet women’s history and the history of Soviet repressions. She has served as consultant on a number of international research projects. She is the author of Soviet Women – Everyday Lives (Routledge, 2020) and Women in the Soviet Dissident Movements (Routledge, forthcoming).
