Jóvenes en la construcción de comunidad a través de la cultura local

Abstract

The work shows the participation, organization and experience of the young persons in the process of mobilization and involvement of the inhabitants of slum dwellers in activities of promotion of the art and the culture in a municipality from Chiapas. From a qualitative perspective it recovers and analyzes information arisen in informal conversations and interviews of seven organizers and activists of the movement We are Neighborhood Fest, young students and professionals of between 16 and 27 years, to whom they are interested in calling for creators, artists and craftsmen to join to a cultural billboard the public highway, to promote the art and the culture and community relations are re-form between persons and out of the neighborhoods. This experience breaks with the stereotype, that the young persons are immobilized before the needs of his environment and highly vulnerable to the psychosocial problematics.