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This article addresses the setting up of the political Community of the Portuguese Language Countries (Comunidade dos Países de Língua Portuguesa (CPLP)) and its present-day social and cultural dynamics. As the other articles in this Special Section from Martins, Salgado and Santos also demonstrate, media and communication systems are playing a role in the development of this loose aggregation and in the internal dynamics of the Portuguese language countries. In this article, I will highlight the difference between the political and geostrategic moves that led to the formal constitution of the official Lusophone community in 1996 (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Portugal and Sao Tome and Prince) and the rich and diverse civil society dynamics that are not necessarily articulated with wider geo-political and economic interests (East Timor and Equatorial Guinea joined the CPLP in 2002 and 2014, respectively). Indeed, two movements can be observed in this fluid and often conflicting process: one is the top-down political decisions aiming to reconfigure institutional arrangements and to promote Lusophony as a strategically meaningful global construct and the other one is a multitude of small-scale arrangements and bottom-up efforts to connect and associate Portuguese-speaking people creating new and richer inter-cultural significance for their activities and achievements. In this text, I will first address the political consensus that was established in Portugal regarding the importance of the Lusophone community. I will then present some aspects of the academic scepticism (still very much alive) regarding this post-colonial construct, and finally, I will signal the bottom-up inter-continental Lusophone dynamics, possibly quite indifferent to the Portuguese political consensus and the on-going academic debates.

Lusophone community in the digital age: the ambiguous place of scepticism and performance