A geografia das políticas públicas da juventude no Brasil: uma proposta de Sistema Nacional da Juventude

Abstract

The research proposes a geographical analysis of public policies on youth in the first decade of this century in Brazil. To accomplish this goal, it was carried out a youth policy localization in the context of national social policy in its configuration after the promulgation of the Federal Constitution of 1988. It was identified how the youth theme, gained unprecedented projection on the agenda of the Brazilian social issues. The dissertation also presents the concepts of social policies and territory. Both concepts were the premises to contextualize the main theme, since as the public policies, the youth issues are a kind of social policy, and the intent was to see how they adhere to space and conform the territory. Was also presented concepts youth and policies public youth to demonstrate how different acceptations defining youth as one phase lifecycle and how these definitions interfere in type public policy realized by State. Were prepared diagrams and maps showing how public policies are designed by managers in terms of their spatial aspect, that also composed some theoretical analysis about the territorialization of these policies. In conclusion, it is presented a proposal for a national system of youth to organize and structure the youth public policies in Brazil.