Youth, politics and the urgency of reconnecting

The apparent lack of interest of young people in politics has been a recurring theme in analysis, but reducing it to a matter of apathy is as easy as it is imprecise. The distance between young people and traditional political institutions has complex roots: mistrust, disenchantment, but also a profound transformation of ways of understanding participation. In a context of structural precariousness, media saturation and a crisis of representatio…