ABSTRACT

Youth movements rose in Brazil in the past decade, fighting for equitable access to education alongside plural – anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and feminist – struggles. This article examines interactions by which Brazilian youth activists organise, politicise, and define who constitutes a movement. It focuses on a 2019 public hearing to defend race- and class-based affirmative action. Taking a discursive analytic approach situated within a broader ethnographic study, the findings highlight the collective nature of youth practices and identity. Youth activists shape a sense of belonging by emphasising ‘we’ and ‘us’ pronouns in a speech; develop audience co-authorship as they listen and chant together; and co-construct chants before initiating them in the crowd. The analysis contributes to understanding hybrid (on- and offline), multimodal educational practices and interactions in movements as youth articulate race, generation/age, class, and place. In doing so, youth construct collective identity and generate movement power.

摘要

在过去的十年里，巴西的青年运动兴起，在争取平等受教育机会的同时，还进行了反资本主义、反种族主义和女权主义的多元斗争。本文考察了巴西青年活动家组织、政治化和定义谁构成运动的互动。它侧重于 2019 年的公开听证会，以捍卫基于种族和阶级的平权行动。采用更广泛的民族志研究中的话语分析方法，研究结果突出了青年实践和身份的集体性质。青年活动家通过在演讲中强调“我们”和“我们”代词来塑造归属感；当他们一起聆听和吟唱时，发展观众共同创作；并在人群中发起圣歌之前共同构建圣歌。该分析有助于理解混合（在线和离线），青年表达种族、世代/年龄、阶级和地点时的多模式教育实践和运动互动。在此过程中，青年构建了集体认同并产生了运动力量。