Abstract
This article analyses youth activism in Chile through the lens of the Chilean student movement. It examines new forms of grassroots politics and popular democracy that have been at the core of struggles led by the Chilean student movement since the early 2000s. The article reflects on the legacy of this student movement regarding transformation of the character and meaning of citizenship, politics, and democracy within a post-authoritarian democratic society. The relationship between education and citizenship is placed in context, paying special attention to how grievances around education are key to making education a space for legitimisation of new ways of being political. The article discusses the implications, in the context of the 2019-2020 Chilean protests, of the new forms of politics and the political that were part of the legacy of the Chilean student movement.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 363 -379 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Citizenship Teaching & Learning |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Sept 2022 |
Keywords
- Chilean student movement
- protest
- citizenship
- neoliberal urbanism
- Education
