Encontros e desencontros políticos entre a liga da juventude do MDM e os jovens

Abstract

We study the relationship that the Youth League of the Democratic Movement political party of Mozambique has with youth who seeks to achieve with their practices. The purpose was to understand the influence that the way it is built and categorized the young has on this relationship. We develop this understanding on the assumption that young people are constructed as political actors, assuming a critical position on the discursive practices developed by those who are interested in the categorizing within the political arena in Mozambique. We set by a theoretical triangulation between the theory of utopia and ideology of Mannheim and the social construction of reality Berger and Luckmann, which allowed us to analyze the construction of the young category, referring to the fact that they find or do not store or modify the your present situation. We conducted a study with a qualitative approach in which the dialectic was the main method and the case study of the strategic research. The target group were the Youth League representatives MDM and young people who have been included in practices developed by this college, so we applied the semi-structured interview to a total of 15 individuals. The data interpretation allows us to state that different categories of young are built and are at stake in the relationship between MDM Youth League and youth. In some cases we witnessed a divergence and convergence in another. However, in all situations the category “young actor of change” built this guild is interpreted according to the daily experiences that young people experience in the political field, thus influencing, that in some situations they identify with her and others to reject.