Youth and Social Outburst in Chile: Collective and Territorial Identities in Dispute*

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This article aims to characterize collective and territorial identity disputes among young participants in the 2019 Social Outburst in Chile. It highlights the crisis of representativeness that the country has been experiencing for years and focuses on the youth subject as a protagonist of social movements. A mixed methodology was designed, which resulted in an online questionnaire applied to a sample of 41 young people and students between 15 and 24 years old, residents of communities in the Metropolitan Region. It is concluded that distrust towards political institutions persists. Still, new collective-territorial identities emerge through the resignification of public spaces, various mass demonstrations, and a militant symbology.