Contar la crisis: Materiales narrativos en la semántica social de la crisis

Abstract

Based on the evidence provided by 9 focus groups, this paper deals with social semantics of the crisis within the framework of the hypothesis proposed by Janet Roitman. It proposes to portray various narrative strategies that allow to give account of the experience of the crisis, according to four axes of contrasts: Agency/patience, moralizing/power, situation/chronicity, destruction/creation. At its end, it proposes to reconstruct the fundamental features of the subjects appearing inside the proposed narrative plots.