SPANISH YOUTH BETWEEN POLITICAL OUTRAGE AND APATHY: AN INTERPRETATION FROM CITIZEN IDENTITIES

The present article seeks to understand and connect the social representations of politics from different generations of secondary school students in Greater Concepcion, Chile. It is proposed that social representations of the realm of politics built by secondary students are contemporary to the period and space they are produced, and are, at the same time, mainly based on «youth explosion», questioning the day-to-day of politics and re-activating the way politics is represented. That is how Chilean post-1973 history states the existence of three generational political narratives in secondary students, portraying politics from their own socio-historical posture: the first from the 80’s, the second from 2006 and the final one from 2011.