Vulnerabilities, mobilities and corporalities in young people who perform practices in arts and sports in popular neighborhood of Buenos Aires City

Abstract

The paper presents results of a doctoral thesis, which analyzed the experiences of young people from popular neighbourhoods who perform practices in arts and sports in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, investigating the linkages between bodies, emotions and space mobilities in their processes of individuation. The analysis focuses on the reading of the tensions and articulations between the social challenges that these young people face and the supports to pass through them, from the use of the category of geometry of the vulnerabilities, arising from the articulation of the notions of vulnerability and geometry of bodies. For the construction of the empirical data, semi-structured interviews, biographical accounts, and participation-observation were conducted in a social organization that offers free workshops in these areas. This approach made it possible to notice the dynamics and multidimensionality of vulnerability processes – where the linkages among bodies-emotion-mobilities revealed particular and novel forms of these processes and supports to face them – that cross over the experiences of young people from popular neighborhoods.