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Di Leo, Pablo Francisco
Martuccelli, Danilo
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251 p.
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Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires (autonomus city)
Abstract
The purpose of this thesis is to make a contribution to youth studies, from a sociological analysis on the characteristics of current Latin American societies, considering the way that the processes of structural transformation –in the level of the political-economic, as well as their intersections with social and cultural ones, produce a specific way of being 'young' in the context of the production of a particular type of 'individual' in these societies. Based on this interest, pointing out the importance of spaces of sociability in the biographies of young people, the object of this thesis was to analyze the experiences of youth of popular sectors who perform artistic and sports activities in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires (CABA), searching the links between bodies, emotions and mobilities in their process of individuation.
For such porpuse, this work was based on both the collection and systematization of literature on the subject; a fieldwork developed in a social organization, Circo Social del Sur, which offers clasess for free to young people in poor neighborhoods of CABA, –using qualitative social research techniques, in particular, biographical accounts and participation-observation– and its links with conceptual tools of sociology of individuation, sociology of bodies/emotions and studies on mobilities, this study focused on identifying the main challenges that young people perceive in their biographies, the resources they access to confront them and the work they had to do on themselves to face them, identifying the processes of vulnerability in which their social experiences are conform, and the space-times and links that are significant for them.
From the analytical articulation between the conceptual framework and the empirical data built related to practices and meanings of the those interviewed, two central categories emerged. They revealed tensions between to show- to hide and to go-to stay. In connection with these two emerging categories, it was possible to identify two main challenges: the challenge of mobility and the challenge of the relationship with others, which araised as analyzers of youth experiences in contexts of vulnerability.
The challenge of mobility express tensions between desires and motivations to leave certain spaces and create, enter and remain in others. They also showed the possibilities and regulations this meant for young, and at times also for their families, in migration processes and multiple moves in search of welfare and employment opportunities, in daily circulation around the city in order to faced daily obligations, such as study, work or caring for others, and also to keep practising the activities they wished to be part of.
In the case of the relationship with others, this challenge was located especially in the experience of generating and sustaining relations or to join new social spaces, avoiding any possible conflict. When interacting, therefore, emerged specific feelings that involve a meaningful work for young people on their bodies and emotions. This supposed a process of showing-hiding what was considered acceptable –as being relaxed, positive, cheerful, skinny– in contrast with sensitivities and undesirable corporalities as sadness, pain, shyness or fatness.
The dialogue in the analysis of these social challenges revealed a particular geometry of vulnerabilities in which social experiences of these young people were developed, in which it was possible to notice how the processes of vulnerability create and impose distances and brands –differently valued– between their bodies; establish inequalities in the provision of social energies and their potential of movement. However, these youths perceived themselves obligated to face the challenges present in their biographies, in a personal and individual way, supported mainly by their own efforts and capabilities. This allows us to think of a specific form of individuation in the Latin American context that can be understood from the notion of hyper-actor, that refers to a way of individuation in which the actors find themselves supported on personal consistency, less than through social institutions. However, in the case of those interviewed, the opportunities achieved in the practice of an artistic and sporting activity, and in particular when performing it in Circo Social del Sur, questions how the link with certain institutions that are meaningful to young people from popular sectors glimpses supports that are substantive and relevant to them.
Therefore, both dimensions become relevant for the understanding of how youths are constructed in the current Argentine context, from an analysis that set the limits and potentials to their bodies/emotions and mobilities, pointing out the diversities and heterogeneities, not only between different social positions but also within them, recognizing the processes of vulnerability and the levels of agency that get throw them.
For such porpuse, this work was based on both the collection and systematization of literature on the subject; a fieldwork developed in a social organization, Circo Social del Sur, which offers clasess for free to young people in poor neighborhoods of CABA, –using qualitative social research techniques, in particular, biographical accounts and participation-observation– and its links with conceptual tools of sociology of individuation, sociology of bodies/emotions and studies on mobilities, this study focused on identifying the main challenges that young people perceive in their biographies, the resources they access to confront them and the work they had to do on themselves to face them, identifying the processes of vulnerability in which their social experiences are conform, and the space-times and links that are significant for them.
From the analytical articulation between the conceptual framework and the empirical data built related to practices and meanings of the those interviewed, two central categories emerged. They revealed tensions between to show- to hide and to go-to stay. In connection with these two emerging categories, it was possible to identify two main challenges: the challenge of mobility and the challenge of the relationship with others, which araised as analyzers of youth experiences in contexts of vulnerability.
The challenge of mobility express tensions between desires and motivations to leave certain spaces and create, enter and remain in others. They also showed the possibilities and regulations this meant for young, and at times also for their families, in migration processes and multiple moves in search of welfare and employment opportunities, in daily circulation around the city in order to faced daily obligations, such as study, work or caring for others, and also to keep practising the activities they wished to be part of.
In the case of the relationship with others, this challenge was located especially in the experience of generating and sustaining relations or to join new social spaces, avoiding any possible conflict. When interacting, therefore, emerged specific feelings that involve a meaningful work for young people on their bodies and emotions. This supposed a process of showing-hiding what was considered acceptable –as being relaxed, positive, cheerful, skinny– in contrast with sensitivities and undesirable corporalities as sadness, pain, shyness or fatness.
The dialogue in the analysis of these social challenges revealed a particular geometry of vulnerabilities in which social experiences of these young people were developed, in which it was possible to notice how the processes of vulnerability create and impose distances and brands –differently valued– between their bodies; establish inequalities in the provision of social energies and their potential of movement. However, these youths perceived themselves obligated to face the challenges present in their biographies, in a personal and individual way, supported mainly by their own efforts and capabilities. This allows us to think of a specific form of individuation in the Latin American context that can be understood from the notion of hyper-actor, that refers to a way of individuation in which the actors find themselves supported on personal consistency, less than through social institutions. However, in the case of those interviewed, the opportunities achieved in the practice of an artistic and sporting activity, and in particular when performing it in Circo Social del Sur, questions how the link with certain institutions that are meaningful to young people from popular sectors glimpses supports that are substantive and relevant to them.
Therefore, both dimensions become relevant for the understanding of how youths are constructed in the current Argentine context, from an analysis that set the limits and potentials to their bodies/emotions and mobilities, pointing out the diversities and heterogeneities, not only between different social positions but also within them, recognizing the processes of vulnerability and the levels of agency that get throw them.
Título obtenido
Doctora de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales