Reflexiones Journal ISSN Impreso: 1021-1209 ISSN electrónico: 1659-2859

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Institutional Experiences and Agencies of Young People from Popular Sectors in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Keywords

Youth agency
Narrative identity
Young people
Popular sectors
Institutional experiences
Agencia juvenil
Identidad narrativa
Jóvenes
Sectores populares
Experiencias institucionales

How to Cite

Di Leo, P. F. (2019). Institutional Experiences and Agencies of Young People from Popular Sectors in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Reflexiones Journal, 98(2). https://doi.org/10.15517/rr.v98i2.34604

Abstract

This article presents results of a funded social research which main objective is to analyze the experiences and agencies of young people from popular sectors in institutions that promote the access and the exercise of rights in the Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires (MABA), Argentina. For the data construction the researchers conducted, as a qualitative methodological strategy, in-depth interviews and biographical narratives with fourteen young people in five institutions. This work presents three categories emerging from the analysis of youth narrations, called self-narratives: discovery, moral (re)orientation, and collective transformation. Around these narratives is discussed in theoretical terms the problem of young people agencies and identity constructions, using conceptual tools from the sociologies of experience (Dubet 2013), the individual (Araujo y Martuccelli 2012), and the contemporary social theory (Ema López 2004; Mahmood 2006; Taylor 2006; Butler 2012; Heller 2017). The article concludes that these institutions provide young people with various supports that open up opportunities to re-signify and exercise their rights in socially vulnerable territories. In this way, they build agencies and exercise their citizenship in ways that do not respond to abstract theoretical or legal definitions, but are anchored in their experiences, everyday ways of cohabiting and projecting along with other people.

https://doi.org/10.15517/rr.v98i2.34604
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