Carlo Genova is Associate Professor at the University of Turin, where he teaches the sociology of culture, and lifestyles and urban spaces. His main fields of empirical research are youth political activism, youth cultures in urban space, food consumption and sustainability. His theoretical interests are lifestyles and subcultures, social analysis of space and material culture, and interpretative sociology.Martina Tazzara is a PhD student in sociology and methodology of social research (SOMET) at the Universities of Milan and Turin, engaged in a project on infrastructures and social inequalities. Her research interests gravitate around urban studies, relationships between space and community, and social movements.

• Youth politics and participation a general portrait and a research.- Biographical paths of participation.- Representations of society and meanings of participation.- Action topics goals activities organisational models.- The group the young activists in their own eyes.

Carlo Genova is Associate Professor at the University of Turin, where he teaches the sociology of culture, and lifestyles and urban spaces. His main fields of empirical research are youth political activism, youth cultures in urban space, food consumption and sustainability. His theoretical interests are lifestyles and subcultures, social analysis of space and material culture, and interpretative sociology.Martina Tazzara is a PhD student in sociology and methodology of social research (SOMET) at the Universities of Milan and Turin, engaged in a project on infrastructures and social inequalities. Her research interests gravitate around urban studies, relationships between space and community, and social movements.

• Youth politics and participation a general portrait and a research.- Biographical paths of participation.- Representations of society and meanings of participation.- Action topics goals activities organisational models.- The group the young activists in their own eyes.