The intricate echoes of human rights: participation and culture between generations

Abstract

The youth, periodically, occupies spaces in political sceneries and in the city streets announcing its desires and appealing for its rights. Young people’s participation disquiets governments and dislocates possible truths that the Social Sciences believe to have found in each one of its theoretical divisions. The emergence of student’s movements of 1968 has put in doubt critical variables, and others not as much, of XIX century and of the first half of XX century. The XXI century manifestations, intensified in 2013, announce the urgency in the revision of established theories. Now, as before, youth participation is questioned. Now, as before, the youth participation in social movements express in its content the desire, not always clearly expressed, of building a human rights culture. This article seeks to approximate youth participation in the two historical periods referred, trying to highlight the human rights presence in each of them, sometimes as a possibility, sometimes as a deficiency.