This research highlights trajectories and processes that motivate participation and social engagement of young people today. Considering recent complaints and announcements by the contemporary youth, this study is justified by the need to understand and strengthen youth participation in the construction of new paths for the planet that faces political, humanitarian and geographical distress. The research, whose objects of study are the narratives of young activists from the project Ressuscita São Gonçalo, seeks to identify, describe and understand the training processes that constitute their engagements. What was different about the trajectory of these young people? The dissertation approaches studies on Youth, Interculturality, Decoloniality and Epistemologies of the South, especially in the perspective of pedagogy defended by Walsh (2016) when taking the place of the lived and experienced to map the fabric of the emerging social emancipation in everyday life. The research combines observation of activities led by young people and comprehensive interviews so youth narratives take center stage in the process of making knowledge and actions enunciated by them visible. The production of meaning from affective memories and propositional reinterpretations with and for the periphery emerges from this plurivocal mapping. The results show the importance of social experiences as a political stimulus for the democratic debate. Emphasis is placed on accountability for the territory as well as the hope for a new time as a call for strength and awakening to a turn between resisting the neglect that subordinates and insurgency in practices and actions to re-signify the experienced realities.