Youth protest culture in Lima (2011-2016)

Oliart, P

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-83541-5_2

Youth protest culture in Lima (2011-2016)

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Patricia Oliart

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Abstract

This chapter analyses how the protest culture displayed by a network of political and cultural youth collectives, bolstered numerous events over 5 years while mapping new cartographies of the city of Lima. Their use of social media, innovative solidarity campaigns, and keenness for large assemblies transformed forms of organising dissent, while widening participation and rendering regional struggles visible to national audiences. After a presentation of the Peruvian context for the emergence of such activist networks and protest culture, this chapter analyses the motivations and political meanings underlying the forms of protest and critique that youth collectives engaged in, and comments on the historical, social and political significance of the practices of this generation of activists for the city of Lima.