Reflections on Social Intervention with Youth Movements

This paper presents a critical reflection on social intervention processes directed toward youth movements, drawing upon findings from a qualitative case study of the 2021 social uprising in Cali, Colombia. The study explores how institutional actors, community organizations, and young participants negotiated power relations through everyday practices of resistance and adaptation. Informed by Foucault’s conception of power as relational, De Certeau’s notions of tactics and strategies, and Scott’s theory of hidden transcripts, the analysis reveals that interventions are not neutral practices, but political processes embedded in the social fabric of everyday life. Results suggest that while social intervention can institutionalize grassroots resistance, it can also open dialogical spaces for subversion and redefinition of institutional norms. The discussion underscores the ambivalent role of intervention: simultaneously a mechanism of control and a potential field for emancipation.本文针对面向青年运动的社会干预进程展开批判性反思，其研究素材源自对哥伦比亚卡利市2021年社会抗议运动的质性案例研究成果。本研究探讨了制度行动者、社区组织与青年参与者如何通过日常反抗与调适实践，协商权力关系。本研究借鉴福柯的关系性权力观、德塞都的战术与策略概念，以及斯科特的隐秘文本（hidden transcripts）理论，分析表明社会干预并非中立实践，而是嵌入日常生活社会肌理的政治进程。研究结果显示，社会干预既可以将草根反抗制度化，亦可为颠覆与重新界定制度规范开辟对话空间。本文的讨论部分着重阐明了社会干预的双重属性：其既是控制机制，亦是实现解放的潜在场域。