Tom Junes

The end of the Cold War era was an event with a worldwide impact during which a generation of youth came of age—symbolically denoted the generation of 1989—that saw a different world emerge than the one its contemporary elders grew up in. This new and unfolding reality posed new problems and challenges for said generation. This project aims to study the factors that influenced the birth of this generation—and its members‘ consciousness—during the late 1980s and early 1990s from a transnational and comparative perspective through a series of area case studies in Europe and beyond.