Transformative communication radar: practices, action and praxis communication in solidarity economy networks in Portugal and Catalonia

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2021

Authors

Moreira, Sara (Author) Other; Parente, Cristina (Author) FLUP

Journal

Title: tripleC: Communication, Capitalism & Critique

Vol. 19 No. 2

Pages: 438 -458

ISSN: 1726-670X

Publisher: University of Westminster. Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies

Indexing

ISI Web of Science

Scopus

Sociological Abstracts

Communication Source (EBSCO)

DOAJ

Scientific classification

CORDIS: Social sciences

Other information

DOI: 10.31269/triplec.v19i2.1272

Abstract (EN): This article explores the transformational character of solidarity economy network communication in Portugal and Catalonia, focusing on the first two months of the crisis brought on by COVID-19. We assume that what these networks choose to convey (or remain silent on) in their public communications reflects their positions in the fields of action and values and their theoretical alignment, establishing an ethico-political orientation. Through the analysis of virtual content conveyed by solidarity economy organisations, we analyse the topics covered, the types of content and sources cited, and the level of demand in the discourse, as well as their individual, institutional and collective character. The results reveal very different commu-nicative approaches in each of the cases analysed: from silence or total absence of communi-cative practices to what can be considered a transformational praxis communication, based on collective action challenging the structures of power and domination and pointing out ways to overcome them. The article proposes a transformative communication radar linking Haber-mas’s theory of communicative action and Fuchs’s Marxist-inspired praxis communication con-cept, as a way of distinguishing merely instrumental communicative approaches from those guided by communicative and cooperative rationality driving new agreements and societal transformations.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific