The four articles published in the Ágora section of this edition respond to the call for research articles (paraphrasing the original CfP) exploring how young people experience and act in the urban spaces they live in, how they recreate them and construct contemporary cities. Emphasis was also placed on studies applying participatory methodologies and new forms of documenting and carrying out research with/about young people and adolescents in the city. We considered that a call for submissions within these parameters would also provide a platform for research using visual, multimodal and sensorial methodologies and/or digital resources, as well as qualitative and/or ethnographic studies. More broadly, the call aimed to share research that places the experiences and voices of adolescents and young people in urban contexts at the centre of analysis.

Finally, despite the current pressure on the academic community to channel their work towards high-impact journals, often with restricted access and in the hands of multinational publishing conglomerates, we hoped to bring together articles that would reflect the diversity of social, economic, cultural and institutional conditioning factors, with particular attention to the geographical and disciplinary diversity that may be represented in the set of proposals. 

David Poveda y Ligia Ferro, coord. Àgora