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THEMATIC SECTION: DIALOGUE AND LIVING TOGETHER IN THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF EDUCATION • Educ. Real. 43 (3) • Jul-Sep 2018 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2175-623678811   copy

Youth Activism in Chile: from urban educational inequalities to experiences of living together and solidarity1 1 This article is based on an unpublished doctoral thesis on Space and Politics in the Penguins’ movement: geographies of the political construction of the Chilean student movement, UCL Institute of Education, University College London. The author acknowledges the financial support of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS) in undertaking the fieldwork in Chile between July and November 2011.

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ABSTRACT:

This article examines the geographies of youth political activism in Chile. It makes the argument that a historical spatial identity of public education, as the engine of working-class and middle-class mobility, intersecting both with contexts of social mixing and with a historical urban educational inequality, provides a different lens through which to understand youth activism. This article seeks to analyse the linkages between these spatialities of public education and different geographies of youth activism as spaces of living together and as practices of solidarity. It reflects on the need for ongoing debates on citizenship education to engage with these geographies of youth activism in order to fully understand the significance of youth political participation within neoliberal market-driven education agendas.

Keywords:
Chilean Student Movement; Youth Activism; Public Education; Citizenship

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