"The world doesn't need to be miserable": processes of youth politicization in rural areas of Misiones (Argentina)

Abstract

The general objective of this article is to analyze the politicization process of young people who live in a rural context (Misiones, Argentina) and are part of families of the Movement of Excluded Workers (MTE). The individual and the collective are intertwined in a field of forces with a long history in the region, diversity of actors (multinational, small producers, state, families, cooperative), multidimensionality of inequality and intersectionality of social conditions. From an ethnographic approach, we will explain processes of socialization, political subjectification and collective political actions in which they participated, which will allow us to understand the production of a rural youth political subject. We also aim to present and discuss the state as a participating actor in the production of a youth political subject, insofar as its existence – by action or omission – constitutes it as a node of power to demand, with which to antagonize, and/or feel challenged by political construction.