Activism cycle as a device for youth citizen participation and mobilization in Bogotá city. Contributions to the characterization of an emerging phenomenon

Abstract

The activism cycle social phenomenon it’s not a common factor to study, but it has been increasing in different cultures and countries around the world. For example in Bogotá where the main goal is to create a distinction about this important topic. New ethnomethodological article research in Bogotá has been determined through different semi-structured interviews following the CAP model to 4 academic groups as such feminists, environmentalists, and LGBTIQ+ primarily located in Bogotá city. It has been found motley social collectives that their conveyance are mostly bicycles as a tool of transportation, but also a mobility, resilience, citizens collaboration that has the intention to use this tool as a transport system. There are some speeches, and research supporting economic characteristics about ecologic bicycles as viable alternative transportation for a city like Bogotá, also for the rest of the world, not only because it’s healthy but it’s because it helps the environment, agglomerate common interests, becoming a symbol of identity and claiming of rights that come into tension with certain social practices and public policies.