Young men, time, and boredom in the Republic of Georgia / Martin Demant Frederiksen.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Walking a ruined city -- Devils and brotherhoods -- The White Georgian -- A tale of two artists -- Subjunctive moods and imperative reminders -- Subjunctive materialities -- Social afterlives and the creation of temporal margins.

In the midst of societal optimism, how do young men cope with the loss of a vibrant future? This book provides a vivid exploration of the tension between subjective and societal time and the ways these tensions create experiences of marginality among under- or unemployed young men in the Republic of Georgia. Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork, the author shows how the Georgian state has attempted to make the so-called post-Soviet transition a thing of the past as it creates new ideas about the future.

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