Critical Discourse Analysis in Waste Management Policies: A Shifting Paradigm for Waste Pickers in Colombia
(2024) STVK12 20241Department of Political Science
- Abstract
- This thesis reviews Colombia's waste management policies, decrees, and laws to scrutinize the country's discourses on waste management and their potential impact on waste pickers. Employing critical discourse analysis and Bacchi's What's the Problem Represented to be? (WPR) approach, the study critically examines these discourses. It identifies the prevailing discourse of free competition in Colombia's waste management policies to bring light to the presuppositions underpinning them and examines the effects of subsequent policies derived from it, particularly concerning waste pickers' access to waste as a means of livelihood. Furthermore, the research investigates paradigm shifts in Colombia's waste management by identifying instances... (More)
- This thesis reviews Colombia's waste management policies, decrees, and laws to scrutinize the country's discourses on waste management and their potential impact on waste pickers. Employing critical discourse analysis and Bacchi's What's the Problem Represented to be? (WPR) approach, the study critically examines these discourses. It identifies the prevailing discourse of free competition in Colombia's waste management policies to bring light to the presuppositions underpinning them and examines the effects of subsequent policies derived from it, particularly concerning waste pickers' access to waste as a means of livelihood. Furthermore, the research investigates paradigm shifts in Colombia's waste management by identifying instances where these dominant discourses have been contested, notably by waste pickers' organizations through the Constitutional Court's rulings. Lastly, the study also looks at more recent formalization policies to challenge their problem representations and gain a deeper understanding of their implications for waste pickers. (Less)
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- author
- Bohorquez, Clara LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- STVK12 20241
- year
- 2024
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Colombia, discourse, formalization, waste management, waste pickers
- language
- English
- id
- 9153359
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- 2024-07-18 13:52:19
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