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From a Politics of Conviction to a Politics of Interest? The Changing Ontologics of Youth Politics in India and Nicaragua

From a Politics of Conviction to a Politics of Interest

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ID5787307
AuthorsD Rodgers (0000-0001-8957-4796, International Development Studies; University of Amsterdam; Amsterdam The Netherlands, corresponding author), Young (0000-0003-4755-8725, Geography and International Studies; University of Wisconsin-Madison; Madison WI USA, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume49
Issue1
Pages193-211
Publication date2016-07-19
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAntipode (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0066-4812 • E-ISSN: 1467-8330
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/anti.12253
OpenAlexW2480472674
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited36

There exists a longstanding association between youth and revolution, partly due to the assumption that the politics of the former are inherently "prefigurative" in nature. Youth politics can often actually be quite conservative, however, as can be observed in contemporary Nicaragua, where rather than attempting to "change the world" in the way that previous militant youth generations were famously associated with, current Sandinista youth activists engage primarily in forms of neo-patrimonial clientelism. At the same time, the evolving experience of everyday political action by university educated youth in Uttar Pradesh, India highlights how economic endeavours can, under certain circumstances, become a form of politics, often of a more transformative variety than classic forms of collective mobilization. The comparison of Nicaragua and India thus highlights the critical importance of considering the wider environment within which youth mobilize and take action in order to understand how and why particular political "ontologics" emerge. La asociación entre los conceptos de juventud y revolución es de vieja data. Esto es debido a la suposición que la política de los jóvenes es inherentemente "prefigurativo". Sin embargo, la política de los jóvenes puede en realidad ser bastante conservadora, como se puede observar en la actualidad en Nicaragua, adonde los jóvenes activistas sandinistas de hoy participan principalmente en formas de clientelismo neo-patrimonial en vez de intentar de "cambiar el mundo" como lo hicieron las generaciones anteriores de jóvenes militantes con los cuales el país está asociado de manera celebrada. Al mismo tiempo, la evolución de la acción política cotidiana de jóvenes universitarios en Uttar Pradesh, India, pone de relieve cómo los esfuerzos económicos pueden, bajo ciertas circunstancias, convertirse en una forma de hacer política, una que a menudo es de una variedad más transformadora que las formas clásicas de movilización colectiva. Por lo tanto, la comparación entre Nicaragua y la India pone de manifiesto la crítica importancia de considerar el contexto más amplio dentro del cual los jóvenes se movilizan y actúan para entender cómo y por qué determinadas "ontológicas" políticas emergen

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