Youth and Cultural Practices: Situated Trajectories in an urban context (city of Río Cuarto, 2019-2021)

Abstract

This article walks through the theoretical framework and reflections of research conducted for a final degree project in the context of the Masters Course in Public Culture at Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA). It is framed within the field of youth studies as subjects of rights and strategic actors in cultural transformation processes, captured through audiovisual recording. This is a privileged means both as a methodological strategy for meeting with subjects and in the possibility of expressing emerging productions of the research process. The concepts of cultures and youths, among others, are tied together. Moreover, certain displacements and reconfigurations of new prevailing meanings in the idea of alternative cultural practices are explored and questioned as well. These new meanings somehow manage to organize and influence the spaces of the public, culture, and politics at a specific moment. The fieldwork articulated the reconstruction of eight youth participation experiences, which, based on their projects and desires, influence and propose new ways of inhabiting the city. This project aimed at casting some light over some possible contributions to public cultural policy that would take the youth of the city of Rio Cuarto (Córdoba, Argentina) into consideration.