Living through Contingency
Youth Narratives about COVID-19 in Jalisco, Mexico
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youth, Mexico, COVID-19, narrativesAbstract
This paper explores the narratives of young people, between 15 and 29 years old, that inhabit the Guadalajara Metropolitan Area (ZMG), Mexico, in the face of the pandemic environment associated with COVID-19. The study is qualitative and was conducted within March 2020 and June 2021, in Jalisco, Mexico. These are the main findings: the deepening of inequalities experienced by the young population; the importance of the techno-digital realm for the production of youth subjectivities (along with an unexpected tendency to media detachment); and the symbolic ineffectiveness of the institutionalgovernmental discourse for the consolidation of the ontological security of the youth.
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