Abstract

VOMMARO, Pablo  and  VAZQUEZ, Melina. Youth particiaption in autonomous social movements in Argentina: The case of the Movement of Unemployed Workers (MUW). Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.2, pp.485-522. ISSN 1692-715X.

The analysis of the ways in which youth participates requires taking into account the way in which young people are politically socialized in a concrete historical, social and political context. During the nineties, Argentina underwent several political transformations whose consequences were felt in the modes of political participation. Several expressions of social organization emerged, promoted mostly by young people; these opened different ways of political participation and of thinking about it. Starting with the construction of the notion of autonomy, young people showed experiences of politization, even in the context of apathy and lack of interest for institutional politics. In this paper, our purpose is to review some expressions of youthful protagonism, relating them to a decisive experience during the decade of the nineties: the formation of autonomous Movements of Unemployed Workers (MUW's). Beginning with the cases of MUW's of Solano and Lanús, we will focus on the consideration of the ways in which these movements relate former territorial activities to new youth activities, relationship that is expressed in challenging Party-, Union-, and State-based politics. We try to show how, in the light of significant processes of political change, there emerges a new political generation among young men and women who share the experience of disappointment with politics. This does not lead them to distance themselves from, or to abandon collective action; on the contrary, it allows them to initiate experiences of subjectivation which are new and disruptive.

Keywords : Youth,; movements of unemployed workers; generation; autonomy; territory; participation; politics; Argentina.

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