The art of youth rebellion

Abstract

In this essay, the author examines the art of rebellion in the context of the 2014 Venezuelan student uprising. Utilizing the lens of Latin American decolonial thought and examining the processes of developing popular power among youth, the author looks into the various ways that youth produce art to communicate and enforce the ideas and values that circumscribe their collective identities. It is necessary, the author argues, for educators to consider the historical, economic and political forces that shape youth's cultural production and to engage decolonial thought in art pedagogy.

Keywords:

• decolonial thought
• art
• pedagogy
• critical theory
• socio-political conditions

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Nathalia E. Jaramillo

Nathalia E. Jaramillo is Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies and Deputy Chief Diversity Officer at Kennesaw State University. She is the author of Immigration and the Challenge of Education (2012) and co-editor of Epistemologies of Ignorance in Education (2011). She has written extensively in the fields of politics of education and decolonial thought.