Assemblage theory: youth and future projects

Abstract

This text is part of a larger research on school youth, being part of an ongoing doctoral research. We put in this field of interlocution some preliminary ideas. Here we intend to discuss the Assemblage theory as a choice to operationalize the production and interpretation of research results. Analyzing the geographic context of the social subjects studied to identify the set of events and elements that combine, causing certain arrangements to mark the lives of social subjects and their possibilities for the future, in a non-random way, requires a discussion focused on complexity, movement and power relations through a relational and contextual understanding. Throughout the work, we seek to demonstrate that the assemblage theory is a promising way to understand that the socio-spatial practices of young people are not limited to the urban scale linked solely to a place and area that is delimited, be it a metropolis, a medium-sized city or a city. small town, this would be a reductionism, since, in their experiences there are multiscale transits, connections, multiplicities, events, embodied affections and power relations. We defend, based on the Assemblage theory, that the geographic context of school youth is not necessarily limited to the scale of the place, even more so in the current moment in which the connecting possibilities are intensified.