UDTR — Radar mondial des droits de la Nature

Guerra del agua in Bolivia: environmental discourse, power and the politics of ‘green’

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Clé publique

radar:r-33e805379f526ca14d6b9350a0b926d3

Auteurs

Thomas Bobo

Année déclarée

2025

Langue déclarée

en

Type source

article

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2026-11-14T02:46:39.005587+00:00

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2026-11-14T02:46:39.005587+00:00

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Non effectuée

Institutions déclarées par la source

University of Birmingham

Pays d’affiliation déclarés

GB

Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Tensions and unrest fuelled by ecological crises hint at a permeable relationship between environmental conditions and violence. However, the internal violent conflict literature, focused on determining causal relations, often omits the presence of social and symbolic processes in the interactions between humans and nature. Non-violent environmental conflict and environmental politics studies acknowledge such a complex and politically contingent relation and the various ecological interpretations that societies generate. This paper bridges those approaches and offers a framework to extend Foucault-inspired environmental discourse analysis to cases of internal violence. It recommends moving away from essentialist examinations of the environment-violence nexus and from causally focused research to examine the mechanisms of meaning, political contingency and construction of eco-social issues. The guerra del agua (December 1999–April 2000) in Cochabamba (Bolivia) illustrates how discursive mechanisms are entrenched in a conflict over natural resource governance. My analysis shows how politicising an ecological issue through social justice and rights discourse can affect a conflict's power balance. I study how competing knowledge and meaning systems regarding environmental issues permeate the power structures of violent political contention. Through environmental constructions, actors develop discourses of legitimacy, community and internal mobilisation, and external support to alter the conflict's power dynamics.

Identifiants

OPENALEX

https://openalex.org/W4407911505

DOI

10.1080/1523908x.2025.2468830

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article

Types déclarés par les sources

article

Éditeurs

Taylor & Francis

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OpenAlex · Document 1

• Document · https://doi.org/10.1080/1523908x.2025.2468830

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