The cultural transformations and political participation of youth in Palestine

Abstract

The study tackled the problem of political participation among Palestinian youth after 2006, from the perspective of analyzing and reviewing the cultural transformations that the palestinan youth passed through, and conducting the study to examine the hypothesis that the change in the values and elements of national political culture among Palestinian youth after the political division, by measuring engagement Culture with politics in the Palestinian case. The study followed in the study the stages of cultural change, its features, and the reasons for the emergence of intellectual trends among Palestinian youth that interfere with political participation. The study concluded that after the political division 2006, Palestinian youth underwent radical cultural transformations that affected the patterns of political and societal participation, represented in providing new spaces and platforms for indirect political participation, and that cultural transformations mainly affected the political culture of youth, through the tools of political practice and political awareness for generations post-political divide. The study found the cultural demonstrations, youth organizations and youth movements represented new places for youth political participation, and played a role in explaining the relationship between culture and politics in new youth discourse in Palestinian .society after the political division,