YOUTH CULTURAL MONITOR PROGRAM: RETHINKING BORDERS BETWEEN STATE AND SOCIETY?
In a scenario of complexification of socio-state interactions, mainly from the post-manifestation cycle of June 2013 in Brazil, and in debate with part of the literature about social movements and participatory institutions, the research does the record and the reflection about the Young Cultural Monitor Program of São Paulo Municipal Secretary of Culture, youth public policy (PPJ in portuguese) of training and professional experimentation of interface with culture.
From interviews with some young actors and managers of the city hall and partner organizations that participated of the program, the objective is to examine elements of socio-state interaction results in the implementation arrangement of this initiative in three axes: in the institutional results of the Secretary ; in the construction of identity and biographical trajectory of young subjects; and the values and worldviews shared by the program's dynamics.
The research records the legislation, inspirations and methodological assumptions that were valued in its expansion of the program to all the Secretary since 2013, besides bringing voices of how public agents of the state bureaucracy, of the civil society organizations contracted by the public sector and what young people lived and signified this experience while beneficiary subject of the program, in the context of ongoing narrative and repertoire changes.
The results seek to demonstrate to what extent and from which characteristics and processes the program redefines roles in the interaction between society and state for the realization of public actions in co-implementation format, which values the dimension of "doing together" instead of "make for". The contribution finds elements of the debate about institutional activism in public policies in the arrangement of the program that bring for reflection the reconfiguration of the institutionalization of demands from the networked civil society agents, not necessarily organized in social movements.