Young people sowing change: The political strength of rural youth in the La Plata horticultural belt (2018-2022)

Abstract

There are multiple and diverse debates on conceptualizing the youth category in Social Sciences (REGUILLO, 2007; MARGULIS, 2008; CHAVES, 2009; BALARDINI, 2000). Since the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 19th century, the category "youth" was defined in Central Europe (KUSTRÍN, 2007, youth was characterized by being present in the public agenda of all Western societies and our region has not been the exception. In general, when we think or talk about youth, it is directly associated with the city, with modernity, with young people who live in the social moratorium (ERICKSON, 1985), it is linked with technology, with modernity, we do not usually do that to think about other types of young people or those who live in other types of spaces, such as rural or peri-urban areas. In this research we aim to analyze and understand the political, organizational, and union process of rural youth who live in the Cordón Hortícola Platense linked to the Popular Economy based on their experience. We also propose some specific objectives such as the reconstruction and identification of the collective process of formation and organization of the youth area. Explore and capture the ways of being, feeling, thinking, and acting of these young people and investigate the experiences surrounding their participation in the movement. And finally, understand the characteristics and elements of the popular economy in the organization of the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE), a rural branch, in Poblet, province of Buenos Aires.