Abstract
This article describes the findings of a research project on youth’s practices as expressions of citizen-ship. Based on or rather starting from the relation communication /politics, our paper is an account of how to identify the processes behind the cons-truction of political agencies by youth collectives. We analyze the organization models, the actions undertaken, and the different forms of communi-cation with which the members of juvenile groups attempt to generate a political agency of sorts vis-à-vis the social vindications they demand via collective action. Finally, the paper describes how, through communication processes, the extent and diversity of the participant youngsters citizenship skills. We highlight the problems and difficulties these groups face vis-à-vis their latent presence and permanence in political life as well as the educational potential of such practices.Origen del artículo Este artículo es un producto del análisis de los hallazgos y resultados del trabajo de campo correspondiente al proyecto de investigación Prácticas juveniles como expresiones ciudadanas, que realizó un grupo de investigadores de la Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, de Bogotá, y del Centro de Estudios Avanzados en Niñez y Juventud (Alianza cinde-Universidad de Manizales), en cooperación con la Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira y la Universidad Autónoma de Manizales, y el cual contó con el apoyo de Colciencias.
Translated title of the contribution | Communication as a Process of Citizenship and Political Agency Construction in Youth Collectives |
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Original language | Spanish |
Pages (from-to) | 384-399 |
Journal | Signos y Pensamiento |
Volume | 29 |
Issue number | 57 |
State | Published - 2010 |
Keywords
- communication
- citizenship
- political agency
- collective action