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Youth Activism: Contributions to the Democratic Movements of the 2010s, Repression and New Challenges
Abstract Submissions Closed
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
Invited Session
All over the 2010 decade, young people have proven they were major of actors of social movements, revolutions and democracies. From the Arab spring to the recent revolutions in Sudan and the prodemocracy movement in Hong Kong, they have developed different ways in taking part in protest and in setting up alternative.
Young activists are however far from a homogenous category. Some of them have joined political or movement organizations, other stick to more autonomous cultures of activism such as alter-activism, neo-anarchism or autonomous projects. Many combine features of various culture of activism
While young activists have foster the hope of democratization all over the decade, they have also face an increasing repression by authoritarian, illiberal and democratic regimes.
From the analysis of these movements and mobilizations, in this panel we propose to address the ways that youth political practice acquires in the second decade of the 21st century describing different ways of understanding the political and highlighting the centrality that young people have had in both the traits that these experiences acquired as well as in their interpretation.
Common Session endorsed by RC34 Sociology of Youth, RC53 Sociology of Childhood, CLACSO GT Youth and Childhood