Youth collective actions during the pandemic: a comparative study on action repertoires, forms of internal organization and representations of politics
LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN OBSERVATORY ON EARLY CHILDHOOD, CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH
Research Report, Year 1, No. 1
Youth collective actions during the pandemic: a comparative study on action repertoires, forms of internal organization and representations of politics. Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Spain and Mexico, 2020-2021
Authors: Melina Vazquez René Unda Lara; Jorge Benedicto; Alejandro Cozachcow; olivia
Cristina Pérez; Elisa Guaraná de Castro; Marisa Revilla Blanco; Robert Gonzalez
García; Sergio Pacheco; Julián Castañeda; Marcos Mutuverría; María Virginia Nessi;
María Martínez; Camila Ponce Lara; Felipe Cárcamo; Juan Antonio Taguenca
Belmonte and Yadira Palenzuela Fundora.
CLACSO
CLACSO Working Group on Children and Youth
July 2021
This research aims to analyze the forms of collective action and how different youth groups defined politics and democracy during the COVID-19 pandemic. We set out to understand the challenges that mobility restrictions and social distancing posed to the development of these actions, in which young people play a particularly prominent role. Therefore, we explored the impact of the pandemic and social isolation measures on the development of organizational strategies within these groups, on forms of participation in contentious collective actions, and, finally, how these actions are articulated with definitions of politics and democracy.
To analyze how these forms of youth collective action change, the research focuses on the activity carried out during this period by different types of youth groups, with a significant presence of young people among their members or with youth leadership. The diversity of the groups was ensured by including those belonging to a broad thematic spectrum, within which youth activism is included.
It is important, and also groups with different social, political, and national contexts.
To address this last aspect, from the CLACSO Working Group on Children and Youth We organized a team with members from seven Ibero-American countries: Mexico, Ecuador, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and Spain. Each national context presents particular conditions that must be considered and interpreted in light of the results of the work we have developed here, although there are also many commonalities that have highlighted not only the global dimension of this pandemic but also the ways in which young people have adapted to it in order to continue carrying out their socio-political commitment.
This report presents the main findings of the research conducted by members of the "Collective Action, Participation, Public Policies and State" axis (coordinated by René Unda Lara, Diego Beretta and Melina Vázquez) of CLACSO Working Group on Childhood and YouthThe overall coordination of the work was carried out by Melina Vázquez, and the country coordination was carried out by Alejandro Cozachcow (Argentina), René Unda Lara (Ecuador), Jorge Benedicto and Marisa Revilla (Spain), Olivia Cristina Pérez, Elisa Guaraná de Castro and Cássio Viana (Brazil), Julián Castañeda (Colombia), Felipe Cárcamo (Chile), and Robert González, Juan Antonio Tanguenca and
Sergio Pacheco (Mexico). In addition to the individuals mentioned, the following people participated in the survey design and fieldwork: Virginia Nessi, Marcos Mutuverría, Florencia Gentile, Mariana de Carvalho Sousa, Julia Paiva Zanetti, Sandra Milena González Díaz, Didier Augusto Alejo-Barrera, José Abelardo Díaz Jaramillo, Camila Ponce Lara, Yadira Palenzuela, Daniel Llanos, María Sol Villagómez, Zulma Hidalgo Landeta, María Martínez, Gomer Betancor Nuez, and Francisco Fernández Trujillo. Data processing was carried out by Bárbara Estévez Leston, and the document was edited by Jorge Benedicto, Marisa Revilla, and Melina Vázquez.
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