Skip to main content

LUP Student Papers

LUND UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES

Critical Discourse Analysis in Waste Management Policies: A Shifting Paradigm for Waste Pickers in Colombia

Bohorquez, Clara LU (2024) STVK12 20241
Department 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)
Please use this url to cite or link to this publication:
author
Bohorquez, Clara LU
supervisor
organization
course
STVK12 20241
year
type
M2 - Bachelor Degree
subject
keywords
Colombia, discourse, formalization, waste management, waste pickers
language
English
id
9153359
date added to LUP
2024-07-18 13:52:19
date last changed
2024-07-18 13:52:19
@misc{9153359,
  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 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.}},
  author       = {{Bohorquez, Clara}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  title        = {{Critical Discourse Analysis in Waste Management Policies: A Shifting Paradigm for Waste Pickers in Colombia}},
  year         = {{2024}},
}