Los jóvenes colombianos como sujetos sociales de poder a propósito de la reforma a la Ley 30

Abstract

The work exposes a synthesis of the Colombian student movement throughout history, with the purpose of determining at what moments the political contest with the State has arisen, the characteristics of the collective actions arranged by the student, its impact, and the answers of those on duty. To then expose the development of the student movement in relation to its last conjuncture, that of the year 2011, in which the young Colombian students developed an important process of mobilization against the reform of Law 30. Only in this way, it is possible to evaluate the repetition or innovation in the action resources used for the resistance of the project of law 112 of 2011, and it is possible to understand the dynamics of the student movement.

Repairing in youth, especially, that participates in the student movement, the need to approach theoretical and methodological approaches from the interdisciplinary perspectives, hence the research is based on the qualitative approach, because through this methodology it is possible to study the historical constructions, the interaction between people, subjective and intersubjective perceptions in relation to social facts, entering into the investigation of social reality, for the case of young university students, as critical subjects, committed to their reality, appearing on the scene Colombian politics as subjects of power. For this reason, for the collection of information, a discussion group was held with the student leaders of the time, the press was reviewed, including alternative sources, and the image was used through the photographs to account for the memory of the repertoires of action used throughout history.

Finally, the investigation was developed in three chapters, the first was intended to be considered as the future of collective action of young people linked to the student movement, the second was presented as the conditions that produced the flow of the movement in 2011, and how it was done, and the third focuses on the action repertoires used by young people in this emergency of their political action.