La comunicación en tiempos de violencia políticael caso vasco
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Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
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Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea
Lejona, España
ISSN: 1135-7991, 1988-4001
Year of publication: 2023
Issue Title: Monograph: Communication and peace: a tribute to Johan Galtung
Issue: 28
Pages: 117-140
Type: Article
More publications in: CIC: Cuadernos de información y comunicación
Abstract
From Vietnam to Iraq and then to Ukraine, there has been a paradigm shift away from information and towards the trenches. For some types of conflict, cultural violence, including communicative violence, may not simply legitimise other forms of violence - in contrast to what Galtung points out - but may be nodal, as befits the performative power of defensive identities. Cultural identities may not be expressions of structural violence or of political and military violence, but rather drivers or the very origin of conflicts that turn into violence with economic, political or structural consequences. Based on this framework, the paper provides a systematic analysis of the communicative treatment of the Basque conflict over five decades, through five stages, highlighting the failure of this communicative model to reorientate the social pulse.