Communities beyond imagination - or from the northeast juvenile “asceticism”

youths from Fortaleza and Recife in the late 20th century

Abstract

This text reflects on the youth manifestations in two of the most important Northeastern cities, Fortaleza and Recife, taking them as a starting point for a dual ownership: the cities interfering in broader social processes and the auto-creation of a socio-historical actor increasingly relevant in the contemporary world: youths. The creation of their “movements”, brought from notions of beauty and ethics, indicates the path trodden by these intercessors of social and political process. The formation of communities that share affectivity, ideas, practices, places and a common language, usually occurred/occurs in a procedural and slow way marked by a complex process of discovery of the self and the other, which involves several tactics, including the creation of movements.