The role of socio-communitarian and political participation on the strategies to cope with the crisis

Abstract

Based on a multidimensional, gradual and processual definition of the concept of resilience, which entails the development of diverse strategies, this article poses that in every position of the space of socio-political interaction, the socio-communitarian and/or political participation promotes the synergic articularion of several dimensions of resilience (individual, familiar, restrictive socio-communitarian, inclusive socio-communitarian and political) making possible to cope with the crisis with a greater degree of wellbeing. Therefore, through the analysis of Spanish empirical material obtained from an European project, this work reveals that political and socio-communitarian participation constitutes a fundamental element to impulse synergic modali- ties of resilience, fostering social capital and the wellbeing of subjects and families; nevertheless, it is interesting to observe that people who hold on the worse situations find more obstacles and less resources to articulate these beneficial synergies.