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25.03.10 |
Visiting Scholar of the Department of Sociology Olena Nikolayenko about Youth Movements in Non-Democracies: Serbia’s Otpor and Belarus’ Zubr
Event: Youth Movements in Non-Democracies: Serbia’s Otpor and Belarus’ Zubr
Olena Nikolayenko, Visiting Scholar, Department of Sociology, NaUKMA
Date: March 25, 15:00-16:30
Location: Building 5, Rm. 313
Abstract
Over the past several years, there has been a rise of youth movements in post-communist societies. In 2000, the Serbian social movement Otpor played a prominent role in bringing down Slobodan Milosevic. Inspired by Otpor, the youth movement Zubr was formed in 2001 to challenge the power of the incumbent presiden Alyaksandr Lukashenka. Why was Serbia’s social movement more successful than Zubr in mobilizing citizens against the repressive political regime? This talk will seek to address this question by analyzing movement strategies and counter-mobilization measures by the ruling elite.
Olena Nikolayenko
Academic Positions
2009 – present: Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Fordham University,
2007-2009: SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Stanford University,
Teaching and Research Interests
Comparative democratization, social movements, youth and politics, public opinion
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1615 - Kyiv-Mohyla brotherhood school, later turned into Collegium, was founded
2012 - NaUKMA is a classical university with six faculties (Humanities, Social Sciences, Law, Economics, Computer Sciences, Natural Sciences). During the twenty years since its re-establishment, Academy has initiated reforms in higher education, was the first university in Ukraine to introduce the bachelor, master and PhD programs, a curriculum in Liberal Arts Education, and a system of entrance tests
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