Desidades it is an electronic journal of popular science in the area of ​​childhood and youth. The publication is quarterly, peer-reviewed, by the Interdisciplinary Nucleus of Pesquisa and Intercâmbio for Contemporary Influence and Adolescence - NIPIAC, of ​​the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, committed to the dissemination of scientific knowledge beyond the walls of the college.

The publication aims to be an electronic means of disseminating debates and ideas in Spanish and Portuguese in the Latin American universe for all those who want to be encouraged to reflect on the challenges and difficulties of living children and youth in the context of today's societies. 

Official page of the magazine: http://desidades.ufrj.br/es/

COORDINATORS:

Mònica Figueras-Maz

Professor of the Department of Communication of the Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona-Spain). JOVIS.com Research Group Coordinator

Mauricio Perondi

Professor of the Faculty of Education of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS (Porto Alegre-Brazil).

Member of the Working Group “Social movements, subjects and educational processes” of the National Associations of Poster-Graduação e Pesquisa em Educação-ANPED (Brazil)

Carmen Flores Moreno

Full-time professor at the UATx Interdisciplinary Research Center on Regional Development, Mexico. Member of the National System of Researchers SNI-C CONACYT

Alexandre Barbosa Pereira

Professor of the Department of Social Sciences of the Federal University of São Paulo (Brazil).

PRESENTATION

The "young" and "young" concepts add up to almost 400 million entries in the Google search engine. Undoubtedly, young people have gained a central role in the design and implementation of political agendas - at local, national and transnational levels - as well as media - with special emphasis on the virtual field. This has been accompanied by a more than significant increase in the interest of the Academy in regard to the study, analysis and theoretical-conceptual reflection around the many different problems that currently affect young people such as - among other topics - schooling and employment; emancipation and access to housing; cultural production and consumption; (in) formal political participation; segregation, exclusion and racism; patriarchy and sexist violence; repression and conflict, etc. All this is deeply nuanced by the different geographical, social, cultural, economic, political and social contexts in which young people develop their identities.

However, an important part of the scientific literature on youth that has been produced in recent decades comes from the Anglo-Saxon world, marking - in turn and to a large extent - the way in which we conceive young people not only of the reduced Global North but of the Global South with regard, in particular, to the values, speeches, voices, grammars and practices produced, reproduced and consumed by the youth of Latin American countries. A growing number of academics have begun to explore the multiple, complex and vibrant worlds of youth cultures from all continents. This diversification of geographical areas and perspectives seems, in fact, essential to understand the mosaic of contemporary youth cultures in a rapidly changing and highly connected world. In addition, in the current context of deep uncertainty in many Latin American countries, research on young people becomes a task of extreme complexity, both in terms of the theoretical-conceptual and methodological approach, as in development of ethnographic field work, as well as in the implementation of new youth policies. To this are added the mechanisms of repression for those researchers who, within the framework of a reflexive anthropology, display an academic activism that is an intrinsic and fundamental part of their profession as a researcher.

Given this, the application of a good part of the ‘classics’ paradigms, concepts and theoretical-conceptual and methodological tools in complex contexts suffers from some difficulty. This leads us to discuss, (re) think - and even, perhaps in some cases - (re) define the set of participatory research methodologies with young people, especially as regards not only the how and why of the methodologies participatory, especially with regard to the collection of ethnographic data and its processing, but especially in relation to the intersectionality and simultaneity of the different participatory research methods.

THEMES

With the aim of promoting interdisciplinary dialogue, this special issue will host scientific articles that either present research with empirical support or present theoretical contributions dedicated to going beyond the current state of each of the Thematic Axes cited below:

E.1. Challenges and challenges of participatory methodologies in the triangulation of research methods.

E.2. Gender perspective and intersectionalities in participatory research methodologies with young people.

E.3. New perspectives for a transnational academic activism.

E.4. Ethical, legal and security issues in participatory research methodologies with young people (minors, ethnic minorities, young people in vulnerable situations and / or in conflict contexts)

E.5. Current challenges and future opportunities for youth empowerment and agency as an engine of transformation and emancipation of local communities.

E.6. Strategies for knowledge transfer, scientific dissemination and social return in the field of youth studies.

E.7. Experiences of young researchers with young people.

E.8. Digital ethnography and youth cultures.

E.9. Educational processes, methodologies and youth participation.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS UNTIL OCTOBER 30 (Unrepeatable)

All proposals should be sent to: [email protected] (Youth, Society and Communication Research Group https://www.upf.edu/web/joviscom)

Style rules and article submission: http://desidades.ufrj.br/es/presentacion-de-articulos-resenas-entrevistas/