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Spaces of youth belonging in disadvantaged contexts:tensions and disputes

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Vol. 30 No. 59 (2022): Octubre

Abstract

Starting from a socio-anthropological conceptualization of belonging, with an emphasis on its relational, procedural, and subjective character, this work analyzes the building of youth belonging and its dilemmas contained in three situated disadvantaged contexts: school, neighborhood, and community. In the first two cases, we refer to working-class, urban young people; the third case, on the other hand, refers to indigenous young people. Their daily life struggles, contradictions and social, subjective tensions faced to build a sense of belonging under materially and socially unfavorable conditions are explored in this work. Empirical data has been taken from qualitative research carried out by its own authors in Mexico, where the ways and dilemmas behind belonging for disadvantaged young people are evidenced. The results show the contradictory, volatile and disputed character of belonging in these scenarios. In theoretical terms, the analysis stands up for a conceptualization of belonging in youth as a variable, situated practice relying on the contexts and participants involved.

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Inequality, recognition, subjectivity, belonging, young people

Author Biographies

María Cristina Bayón, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Investigadora Titular del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, Universidad Nacional
Autónoma de México (IIS-UNAM).

Gonzalo Saraví, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social (CIESAS)

Profesor-Investigador Titular del Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en
Antropología Social (CIESAS), México.

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Bayón, M. C., & Saraví, G. (2022). Spaces of youth belonging in disadvantaged contexts:tensions and disputes. Última Década, 30(59), 43–74. Retrieved from https://ultimadecada.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/68635
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