Make the World Yours! Arts-Based Research in Action in the Cerco do Porto Neighbourhood

Dreaming is not enough. Audiovisual methodologies, social inclusion, and new forms of youth biopolitical resistance

“…If we draw on the contributions of Holte (2017Holte ( , 2021, we can find some clues that are crucial for us to understand the NEET phenomenon, going beyond a mere statistical description. In his work, Holte (2017) begins by referring to the difficulties he experienced in finding NEET young people when carrying out his research work, something that is similar to our case and the Portuguese reality, because it is extremely difficult to pinpoint an exact number of NEETs (Guerra et al, 2022), since most of these young people are not registered in databases, platforms or institutions that could provide statistical data of this nature.…”

“With the Pandemic Everything Changes!”: Examining Welfare Reform and Conditionality Prior to and During the COVID-19 Pandemic Amongst NEET Experienced Young People

“…More so, there is a dearth of evidence considering how such rapid policy transformations have impacted on NEET experienced young people and their wider support networks, prior to and during the pandemic. Much of the existing research, instead, focuses separately on the individual experiences of NEET experienced young people, without an in-depth examination of their wider support networks and the stigmatising effects of recent policy-related environments and infrastructure (Guerra et al 2022).…”

“…This is evident through the participants not being able to sustain stable employment or engage with educational trajectories throughout the pandemicrelated crisis and beyond. Given the recent direction of welfare policy in England and Wales, it remains doubtful if any further unprecedented additional structural or economic redistribution will be given to NEET experienced (Guerra et al 2022). Especially those who are in receipt of conditional and means tested benefits throughout the ongoing cost-of-living crisis of 2022-2023.…”

Artes e utopias: uma abertura entre o passado, o presente e o futuro

“…In fact, this is a thought that can be referred to in relation to all the contributions of this book, that is, the chapters presented here actively contribute to the pursuit of a utopian discourse and narrative -even if many of them start from dystopias -, however in a latent way, in the sense that they can be taken as a visual, theor-podem ser tidos como um processo visual, teórico e empírico, que é construído no presente, mas que tem implicações no futuro e que se baseia no passado e nos ajuda a viver o presente. Assim, acreditamos veemente que este livro se assume como um meio alternativo de pensar a relação, na contemporaneidade, entre a arte, a vida social, política, económica e cultural dos indivíduos que passa pela vida na cidade, na escola, no bairro (Guerra et al, 2022), no lugar de fala dos migrantes, na reconstrução do género , na reivindicação simbólica de rituais e práticas festivais, das vivências quotidianas do consumo e da moda, da expressão da liberdade, da sexualidade e da idade (Guerra, 2022b), entre outras.…”

“…etical and empirical process, which is built in the present, but which has implications for the future and which is based on the past and helps us to live the present. Thus, we strongly believe that this book assumes itself as an alternative way of thinking the relationship, in contemporaneity, between art, the social, political, economic and cultural life of individuals that passes through life in the city, at school, in the neighbourhood (Guerra et al, 2022), the migrants' place of speech, the reconstruction of gender , the symbolic claim of rituals and festival practices, the daily experiences of consumption and fashion, the expression of freedom, sexuality and age (Guerra, 2022b), among others.…”