State management of youth during the democratic transition in Argentina: new agendas, scenarios and actors (1982-1987)

Abstract

The article explores the process of creating the first national youth organizations in Argentina in the 1980s by means of a socio-historical perspective. It approaches the way in which a work agenda is built with the youths during the return to democracy in Argentina, showing points of contact with a set of processes that seem to keep away from the youth themes but which, however, explain the commitment to build a new institutionality as well as specific actions for youths. We refer to a set of guidelines formulated from international organizations, the cycle of youth political mobilization at the global and national level and the process of reconstructing democratic institutional life on the Argentine scenario. The work seeks to unravel the plot that articulates these various phenomena and explain the process of creation and configuration of the youth issue as a new topic of State agenda. To do this, we analyze how to produce (new) specific knowledge -activists, technicians, academics, professionals and state- around the youths who feed and are fed in the shaping of the first differentiated space for the treatment of the Youth at the national state level.