Abstract

NUNEZ, Pedro Fernando. The redefinition of the link youth-politics in Argentina: A study based on political representations and political practices of Middleand High-School youths. Rev.latinoam.cienc.soc.niñez juv [online]. 2008, vol.6, n.1, pp.149-190. ISSN 1692-715X.

In this paper, the author develops a type of analysis that intends to extricate a few traits that might allow a characterization of the ways in which the link between youth and politics is being currently redefined in Argentina. It is expected that, in this way, the paper may contribute to the production of the state of the art of research on the youth condition and its representations and political practices in Latin-America. In a first part, the present analytic work is situated in the dialogue with other researchers who have studied the traits of being young today. In a second part, the author studies the transformations that have occurred in Argentina in the last few years in Middle and High Schools*, as well as in the political sphere. The analysis is structured on the role of family bonds in the decision to participate in politics; in the way violence is conceived-in particular, in the dislegitimation of political violence and in the emphasis on criminal violence and youth violence-and in the meanings that being in school has for youths. From these dimensions, the paper ends with an exploration of the political configurations that are being constructed in schools, understood as means of political socialization of youths.

Keywords : Youth; political socialization; middle school; high school; justice.

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