Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

Although youth conflict has been extensively referenced and analyzed as a study problem, such analysis has usually dismissed the contributions of studies on youth in general. In the present article, therefore, research on other dimensions of youth interactions, not only the ones regarding the penal system, is proposed in order to understand the phenomenon in its complexity. The present work is part of an unpublished doctoral thesis where the case of the “Youth Collective for Our Rights” of the city of Córdoba (Argentina) was selected as a case study. In the same fashion, an analysis on young people as urban citizens, individuals who construct their group identities outside those activities defined as illegal was carried out, where political participation is presented as relevant and with particular characteristics. The new social movement they integrate is characterized from the perspective of the young individuals interviewed, from the retrieval of the theoretical debates around the subject in the last decades in Argentina. To contribute to the understanding of their heterogeneity is proposed, especially of the more recent ones, where forms of feedback between the old and the new forms of politics are presented.

In contrast to the events happened in other Latin-American countries, Argentina has experienced a revitalization of political party youth organizations in the last decade. This phenomenon has aroused academic attention, giving place to the emergence of a field of studies. The present article aims to be a conceptual contribution to the empirical research of this form of youth political participation. After a literature review about youth participation within political parties in Argentina and other Latin-American countries, the article presents conceptual suggestions for the study of these organizations, focusing on both their social environment and on the cultural, organizational and generational dimensions of youth. Hence, the article discusses some conceptual tools for exploring the recruitment and sociability spaces of political party youth organizations, in its partisan uses and meanings of youth, and on the engagement and mobilization processes of young activists.