Session 1: Youth and Generational Change

Across Europe and beyond, the war in Ukraine has had profound implications for generational belonging and political socialisation of children and young adults. Critical junctures are known to shift the political learning as well as political preferences within and across generations. In this panel we discuss models of political socialisation and the underlying explanations for how young learn to perceive of the political realm, apply these to the Polish case, where young people have been exposed to profound societal and political ruptures, and lastly look at the uprooted generational belonging and sense of history among older Ukrainians who were displaced as a result of the war.