Youth multidimensional political activism between singularization and mutualism: the case of Up network
Published 2023-06-01
Keywords
- Generation,
- Mutualism,
- Political imagination,
- Singularization,
- Youth
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Copyright (c) 2023 Paola Rebughini, Lidia Lo Schiavo
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Abstract
In the past two decades, research in both social movement studies and critical youth studies has recorded growing criticism by youth political activism of the individualising processes characteristic of the neoliberal turn. Based on research conducted in Italy with the new network of activists Up, the article analyses the search for a new equilibrium between processes of singularization, and a community life where solidarity, cooperation and mutualism can build local forms of the common and the collective. In the first part of the article, we describe our analytical tools such as singularization, mutualism and generation, and the way in which they can highlight current political imagination of Italian youth; in the second part we present the results of our investigation and the way in which interviewees claim to belong to a wider frame of the transformation of politics in individualized societies.