Abstract

MUNOZ GONZALEZ, Germán. Communication in the life-worlds of Colombian youth. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2007, vol.5, n.1, pp.283-308. ISSN 1692-715X.

This paper gives an account of some of the more significant conceptual and methodological aspects identified in the author's doctoral dissertation that bears the same title. It centers on the life narratives and interviews of a group of youths in each of three Colombian cities: Bogotá, Cali and Manizales, as witnesses of their personal experience in their daily lives. Particular attention is given to those first-person narratives that describe common historical experiences; these narratives are the prime material for what we call "the field of Communication-Culture". Starting with this knowledge, three main scenarios emerge, which redefine and go well beyond the dominant informational model of communication: the body, understood as the space of mutual affectation that occurs in the field of aesthetics; collective actions, which envisage a "we-ethics"; and the building of the cities (we might rather say "citizenships") as diverse territories inhabited by public political practices.

Keywords : Communication; youth; life-world; body; mediations; citizenships.

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