PARTICIPAÇÃO POLÍTICA E ATIVISMO: O FAZER POLÍTICO DAS JUVENTUDES NO SÉCULO XXI

Abstract

The theme of the articles is youth participation political. It makes considerations about the growing emergence of juvenile expression in the public space, which claims for rights, public policies and direct democracy from the 21st century. The general objective is to examine how youth participation interferes in the implementation of public policies for urban mobility by bicycle and in the right to the city. The problem is based on the question: what legal and political factors are leading to the mismatch between the demands of participation in youth activism in relation to the right to the city and the inclusion of urban mobility by bicycle in public policies. The research techniques used were bibliographic, documentary and field. In the field research, twenty young urban bicycle activists (cyclo-activists) were interviewed in the city of Porto Alegre to understand how they self-organize horizontally to influence public policy processes. In conclusion, it was observed a detachment from the conventional forms of politics (macropolitics) by young people who approach the unconventional forms of participation, especially digital virtual ones (micropolitics) due to their capacity for control, non-delegation and representativeness.