In this line, we work towards understanding the theoretical and historical foundations of the concept of 'youth', as well as its expansions into conceptualizations of childhood. Our reflections on epistemological assumptions regarding age, generations, and other intersectional exclusions inform the various theoretical-methodological perspectives applied in the group's research.

One of the most important challenges that contemporary societies must face is offering young people opportunities to plan their future. Considering that social and economic characteristics vary considerably in dimension and nature across different countries and regions, the economic and labor policies applied must respond to this diversity. Analyzing their impacts is a good tool to improve their effectiveness. Moreover, the confluence of globalization and the current economic crisis has revealed the growing inequality of certain groups, including young people. The quantification and identification of inequalities should allow for the implementation of positive action measures or the correction of inequalities as factors for smart, sustainable, and inclusive growth.

Mobility in the 21st century requires us to be attentive to the form adopted by youth cultures in different geographical and cultural areas. The reception of global cultural artifacts and social change itself do not adopt the same forms. Political, economic, and social diasporas are led by populations considered in the youth age group. Faced with these phenomena, young people explore strategies to face the challenges of the world around them.

This line of research includes all research projects in which young people are the protagonists of new ways of understanding politics and how this manifests in contemporary social movements. Continuing with the anthropological tradition of youth studies, we focus on forms of youth sociability and how it manifests in youth cultures.

This line of research focuses on young people's uses of media and new technologies and the meaning they confer on them in their identity process, as well as on young people's media and digital literacy. Moreover, this is a line that cuts across all the previous ones, given that technologies and communication in young people are inherent.

Reading practices and cultural consumption are undergoing significant transformations, especially among younger people. This line of research explores the emerging changes in these practices in times of increasing digitalization. We study continuities and discontinuities between reading on paper and in other formats, as well as the different material conditions and relationships that shape reading and cultural consumption in childhood and youth. We understand reading as a social practice open to both linear and non-linear texts, as well as verbal, auditory, and visual texts. This line of research includes studies related to libraries, museums, schools, and other spaces of mediation for cultural consumption.

In this line of research, we explore how different narrative texts—verbal, visual, and audiovisual—address difficult topics such as the climate crisis, xenophobia, mental health, state violence, and gender violence, among others. We combine the analysis of cultural artifacts with studies on their forms of circulation and appropriation by both childhood and youth cultures, as well as by educational initiatives.

This line of research is integrated into an international network that explores how structural, political, everyday, and symbolic violence affects youth, and how they react and resist against abuses by state and para-state powers.