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JURNAL KOMUNIKASI INDONESIA

Abstract

Fisherwomen constitute an essential yet frequently overlooked workforce in small-scale fisheries, particularly in coastal communities where intercultural dynamics shape everyday working relationships among fisherwomen, fishermen, traders, and buyers. Along the coast of Padang City, these interactions take place within the distinctive socio-cultural context of Minangkabau society, where communication involves ongoing negotiations of meaning across differing cultural expectations, kinship values, and gender roles embedded in the coastal work environment. Although previous studies have examined fisherwomen’s economic participation and gender inequality, limited attention has been paid to communication as an intercultural and lived process through which fisherwomen construct identity, solidarity, and resilience within culturally diverse work settings. This study addresses this gap by exploring the meaning of communication in fisherwomen’s everyday lives using a transcendental phenomenological approach. Data were collected through in-depth interviews, participant observation, and documentation. The findings reveal three themes: communication for sustaining family resilience, communication for negotiating gender roles and identity, and communication in fostering collective solidarity. These findings led to the concept of Collective Communicative Resilience, which illustrates how intercultural communication practices simultaneously sustain family stability, negotiate identity, and reproduce solidarity within vulnerable coastal work environments. This study extends scholarship on intercultural communication and provides a foundation for gender-responsive coastal development policies.

Bahasa Abstract

Perempuan nelayan merupakan tenaga kerja yang esensial, namun kerap terabaikan, dalam perikanan skala kecil, khususnya di komunitas pesisir tempat dinamika antarbudaya membentuk relasi kerja sehari-hari antara perempuan nelayan, nelayan laki-laki, pedagang, dan pembeli. Di pesisir Kota Padang, interaksi tersebut berlangsung dalam konteks sosial-budaya masyarakat Minangkabau yang khas, ketika komunikasi melibatkan negosiasi makna yang berkelanjutan di tengah perbedaan ekspektasi budaya, nilai-nilai kekerabatan, dan peran gender yang melekat dalam lingkungan kerja pesisir. Meskipun penelitian terdahulu telah mengkaji partisipasi ekonomi dan ketimpangan gender perempuan nelayan, kajian yang menempatkan komunikasi sebagai proses antarbudaya yang dihayati, tempat perempuan nelayan mengonstruksi identitas, solidaritas, dan resiliensi dalam lingkungan kerja yang beragam secara budaya, masih sangat terbatas. Penelitian ini mengisi kesenjangan tersebut dengan menelaah makna komunikasi dalam kehidupan sehari-hari perempuan nelayan melalui pendekatan fenomenologi transendental. Data dihimpun melalui wawancara mendalam, observasi partisipan, dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan tiga tema, yaitu komunikasi untuk mempertahankan resiliensi keluarga, komunikasi untuk menegosiasikan peran dan identitas gender, serta komunikasi dalam memperkuat solidaritas kolektif. Temuan tersebut melahirkan konsep Resiliensi Komunikatif Kolektif, yang menggambarkan bagaimana praktik komunikasi antarbudaya secara simultan menopang stabilitas keluarga, menegosiasikan identitas, dan mereproduksi solidaritas dalam lingkungan kerja pesisir yang rentan. Penelitian ini memperkaya kajian komunikasi antarbudaya serta menyediakan landasan bagi kebijakan pembangunan pesisir yang responsif gender.

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