https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD <p>Última Década is a biannual journal published by the Núcleo de Investigación y Acción en Juventudes, of the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Social Sciences of Universidad de Chile. It has a multidisciplinary approach, and it is defined as a journal specialized on youth-related matters, which is dedicated to the dissemination of works from social sciences, education, and humanities, and accepts contributions in the categories of articles, presentations or congress communications, review articles, states of the art, essays, and other related contributions.</p> Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales. Departamento de Sociología es-ES Última Década 0717-4691 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78777 El libro se propone problematizar el adultocentrismo a partir y con los argumentos y reflexiones de chicas y chicos, denominación preferida por el estudio para referirse a las infancias y juventudes. La publicación se presenta como una iniciativa intergeneracional que busca comunicar y visibilizar las inquietudes y cuestionamientos juveniles e infantiles, en miras de una escuchar atenta que permita mejorar las relaciones sociales. Janice Tapia Silva Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 231 236 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78777 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78761 Klaudio Duarte Quapper Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 1 9 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78761 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78763 This research work analyzed how eight graduates from Chilean vocational-technical schools have adjusted their academic, work, and social goals when they deal with obstacles related to their education aspirations. By means of interviews, aspirations of pursuing higher education studies to “live well” through their qualifications were identified, facing obstacles such as lack of information, entrance exam preparation, financial difficulties, and precarization of work, among others, and adjusting their goals according to their initial circumstances and interests in the process. The results reveal a society segmented into social classes and types of education whose youth aspirations, obstacles, and adjustments are determined within a “school bubble” framework, which impacts on their entrance into the “adult world,” acknowledging limits on social mobility and reproducing the social structure. Patricio Ibáñez González Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 10 36 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78763 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78764 This article analyzes student agency and resistance practices to hetero-cis-normativity in school contexts in the Chilean Metropolitan Region. The study is based on semi-structured interviews conducted in 2021 with high school students. The main findings reveal crucial meanings related to the role of schools in the lives of LGBTI+ youth, processes of politicization surrounding identity and oppression, and, finally, individual and collective practices to seek for the visibility of sex-gender diversity, to build support communities, to denounce hetero-cis-normative violence, and to imagine other possible educational worlds. Nacht Allende Allende Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 37 53 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78764 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78766 Parent relationships and family life is a dimension of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) that, according to previous studies, deteriorates during the childhood-to-youth transition in Córdoba, Argentina. To understand this evolution, we have employed sequential methodological integration. Through life stories of young people who participated in a study conducted between 2014 and 2021, we characterized processes of subjectivation in their family relationships. We identified conflict experiences with their parents, highlighting the role played by their mothers and grandmothers in family caregiving. In the qualitative phase, we identified family dynamics that contribute to understand the quantitatively observed deterioration. Francisco Fantini Silvana Berra Horacio Paulín Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 54 73 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78766 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78767 The objective of this research work is to verify the perceptions held by youth researchers working on matters related to periphery, about youths facing hunger. The theoretical framework introduces contemporary youths from a periphery-centered approach. Methodologically speaking, it is based on structured interviews conducted with three researchers in the field of youth studies. The narratives led to discussions on issues related to young people who are vulnerable to food insecurity, such as homeless youths, representativeness, the spaces they navigate, strategies and tactics to overcome common situations faced by these youths, among other points. The study presents the challenges faced by young people within this context, and the skills developed to face these situations. José Inácio Da Silva Junior Victor Hugo Nedel Oliveira Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 74 95 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78767 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78768 This work shows the importance of studying the field of education from new theoretical perspectives to understand the phenomena of ideological fragmentation and disconnection among Chilean elites. It is discussed the need of complementing the question related to social reproduction -mainly associated with the Bourdieusian framework- with one related to cultural reproduction, examining the role played by education plans in elite schools as well as the socialization and political subjectivation processes of students. In light of recent results shown by studies of this nature, some challenges for social sciences and pedagogy have been projected. Angélica Bonilla Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 96 116 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78768 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78770 This article explores the transitions to adulthood of young people from Montevideo and its metropolitan area from a qualitative approach. It highlights the need for a typology to reflect the diversity of biographical experiences through a theoretical approach on precarization of social ties, and analyzes the influence of material inequities in youth transitions. Youth, from this perspective, is considered a double process of experience and transition. The objective of the article is to develop a typology that allows gaining a deeper understanding of the transition process from youth to adulthood in different social contexts. Diego Amarilla Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 117 139 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78770 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78771 This article analyzes childhood as a contested sociohistorical category, exploring how the adult discourse shapes its recognition as a rights-bearing subject and political actor in the context of the implementation of Law 21.430. Through a thematic analysis based on discourse, tensions between protection and participation are examined, highlighting adult-centric structures and challenges for a transformative conceptualization of childhood. The study concludes that structural barriers limiting children’s agency persist, and that cultural and institutional changes are needed to ensure their effective participation. Isaac Ruiz Muñoz Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 140 161 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78771 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78773 The objective of this study is to analyze the perceptions of young teachers in Chile regarding the implementation and development of Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE) in the educational system. The research is nested in an interpretive paradigm and qualitative approach where semi-structured interviews were conducted with 15 recently employed teachers and final year student teachers from different universities in Santiago, Chile, in order to explore their experiences and perspectives on CSE. The results reveal the urgent need to establish a clear national policy to regulate and promote the teaching of CSE, in addition to existing barriers such as cultural resistance and lack of specific training in universities. It also highlights the relevance of a holistic approach that addresses emotional, social and self-care dimensions, which are fundamental for the integral development of students. This study concludes that it is essential to strengthen teacher training and educational policies to ensure an inclusive, effective and equitable implementation of CSE in the Chilean context. Beatriz Torres Pino Sebastián Escobar González Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 162 178 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78773 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78774 Several indicators suggest an increase in emotional discomfort among young people. This research work is purposed to explore how young university students portray youth mental health. A qualitative study has been carried out from individual (15) and group (3) interviews, which results open a wider understanding of the phenomenon. It is observed an explanatory tension between a discomfort that has existed for a long time, but is now more identified, and the idea of anxiety and depression as “icons” for the youth of today, multidetermined by a number of factors. Francisca Mendoza Villagrán Francisca Pereira Castro Jorge Yeber Montt Verenisse Molina Vargas Felix Cova Solar Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 179 196 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78774 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78775 This work presents a preventive intervention against dating violence based on gender and ecological perspectives. Its objective was to strengthen personal skills which favor good treatment in dating relationships in young women. An eight-session workshop was run by female psychologists in charge of facilitating participatory intervention strategies to a group of eight participants, obtaining favorable results from them. It is concluded that selective prevention is currently a contribution to solve the problem addressed, and evidenced the material and subjective impact of neoliberalism on the increased risk of being affected by this issue. It is suggested to deepen selective prevention and to diversify the participating groups in future interventions. Ángela Castillo-Rodríguez Leonor M. Cantera Espinosa Gerardo Chandía Garrido Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 197 218 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78775 https://analesderecho.uchile.cl/index.php/UD/article/view/78776 Martha Lucía Gutiérrez Bonilla es una de las figuras más influyentes en los estudios de juventud en Colombia, gracias a una trayectoria académica y profesional que abarca una amplia variedad de temas clave. Como directora del Observatorio Javeriano de Juventud y profesora asociada del Departamento de Ciencias Políticas de la Universidad Javeriana, en Bogotá, Colombia, ha trabajado en temas como la justicia para las mujeres indígenas, la distribución social del cuidado, la promoción y defensa de los derechos de las víctimas del conflicto armado y el análisis de las trayectorias vitales de las juventudes colombianas. Su contribución ha sido fundamental para el entendimiento de estas problemáticas y para la transformación de las políticas juveniles en el país. Entre sus logros más destacados se encuentra su papel crucial en la construcción de la primera Encuesta Nacional de Juventudes en 2021 y el diseño de la Ley Estatutaria de Ciudadanía Juvenil (Ley 1622 de 2013 y su modificación con la Ley 1885 de 2018). Reconocida a nivel nacional e iberoamericano como un referente en investigación participativa juvenil, Martha Lucía continúa liderando enfoques innovadores y metodologías que avanzan hacia la investigación, no sobre las juventudes, sino con y para ellas. Mateo Ortiz Hernández Copyright (c) 2025 Última Década 2025-05-02 2025-05-02 33 64 219 230 10.5354/0718-2236.2025.78776