Abstract

MARTINEZ POSADA, JORGE ELIÉCER  and  BARRAGAN GIRALDO, DIEGO FERNANDO. Youth and Crowds: Approximations to Understanding Youth Movements. Tabula Rasa [online]. 2008, n.9, pp.353-370. ISSN 1794-2489.

The present article assumes the thesis that current youth movements can be understood from the category of “crowd.” To deal with this thesis, the article first presents a genealogical approximation to the concept of youth. In this section, a general presentation is given about how historically in the West, youth has been understood from a privileged, not exclusive perspective based on the conception of pubescence, adolescence, medieval young people, industrial young workers and post-industrial youth; the article also insists on the way that social moratorium is understood in relation to youth. In the second part, the text deals with the concept of crowds based on the theoretical approaches by Antonio Negri, Michael Hardt and Paolo Virno. It examines crowds from three perspectives: the philosophical and positive, the concept of class, and the idea of power. The article ends with a presentation of a few guidelines for reflection around youth movements from the viewpoint of crowds.

Keywords : crowd(s); youth; empire; subject; movements.

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