Are cultural creators social promoters? Cultural repertoires: new spaces, audiences and aesthetics

Abstract

This investigation is set in the field of knowledge of Social Psychology, more precisely in the field of Political Psychology and Community Psychology. It analyzes cultural creation as a political expression—as political repertoires for expressing national construction and collective and individual identities, and the relationship they establish with the community, being those expressions characteristic of the emerging new social movements. Through a discussion process amongst thirteen cultural creators of different disciplines, all involved in social movements in favor of the language and the culture in the Basque Country, the paper analyzes the topics expressed in their works, the repertoires used for that task and their objective audiences. All this has been done looking at the value of micro-politics and strategies of emotional aspects, which can all become new definitions of the political, from a point of view of Political Psychology. The elements identified in the discussion process are, most of all, counterhegemonic discourses, individual and collective identities, sharing spaces, and aesthetic and political strategies. All elements agree on those new definitions.