Tensiones de la Gobernanza comunitaria de servicios sanitarios rurales en territorios periurbanos (Chile)

Unlike the private concession model applied in urban zones, rural water sanitation services in Chile are managed by rural drinking water (RDW) committees or cooperatives, under a community governance model. This article seeks to understand the tensions and conflicts faced by RDW community governance in the peri-urban territories of regional capitals, which are at the frontier of the private drinking water management model. Based on a political ecology and hybrid governance approach, this research proposes the hypothesis that, on facing urban expansion and water scarcity, the neoliberal institutional framework tends to favour drinking water market governance in peri-urban territories. With this aim, and through semi-structured interviews and participatory observation, focusing on three RDW cases located in the peri-urban zone of Talca, this study develops a critical discourse analysis of community managers and government regulators, identifying their perceptions and positions on current socio-ecological transformations, and community governance tensions. Consistent with the proposed hypothesis, from discourse analysis, it is possible to infer the potential risks of privatization, derived from the implementation of Law No. 20,998, which regulates rural water sanitation services.

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Embracing a New Day

Journal of Bodies, Sexualities, and Masculinities ◽

10.3167/jbsm.2021.020203 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 2 (2) ◽

pp. 10-38

Author(s):

Phillip Joy ◽

Matthew Numer ◽

Sara F. L. Kirk ◽

Megan Aston

Keyword(s):

Body Image ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Queer Theory ◽

Gay Men ◽

Hegemonic Masculinity ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The City

The construction of masculinities is an important component of the bodies and lives of gay men. The role of gay culture on body standards, body dissatisfaction, and the health of gay men was explored using poststructuralism and queer theory within an arts-based framework. Nine gay men were recruited within the city of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Participants were asked to photograph their beliefs, values, and practices relating to their bodies and food. Semi-structured interviews were conducted, using the photographs as guides. Data were analyzed by critical discourse analysis and resulted in three overarching threads of discourse including: (1) Muscles: The Bigger the Better, (2) The Silence of Hegemonic Masculinity, and (3) Embracing a New Day. Participants believed that challenging hegemonic masculinity was a way to work through body image tension.

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Visioning African lionscapes: Securing space, mobilizing capital, and fostering subjects

Environment and Planning E Nature and Space ◽

10.1177/2514848619878167 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 1053-1073 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Sandra G McCubbin ◽

Alice J Hovorka

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Political Ecology ◽

Economic Rationality ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Oxford University ◽

Trophy Hunting ◽

The Future ◽

Conservation Governance ◽

Document Review ◽

Illegal Killing

In September 2016, 14 months after the illegal killing of Cecil the lion raised an international furore over trophy hunting, 58 individuals gathered at Oxford University for the Cecil Summit, a meeting of experts designed to vision the future of lion conservation in honor of Cecil. This paper explores the Cecil Summit through an analytic of government as a means to provide new insights into securitized and neoliberal conservation governance in action. On this basis, we show how the actors emboldened by the Cecil Moment claimed the authority to vision the Cecil Movement. Using video and document review, and semi-structured interviews, our discourse analysis highlights three components of intervention into African lionscapes emerging from the summit—securing space, mobilizing capital, and producing subjects—that are founded upon claims to scientific and economic rationality as well as specific representations of lions and rural Africans. Our analysis of the vision contributes to recent discussions in political ecology about the dovetailing of conservation, security, the economy—and we add—subjectivity. We conclude by pointing to the way in which militarized conservation appears to be inching closer to the lion and offering a critique of the vision for lion conservation put forward at the Cecil Summit.

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Peri-urban territories and rural water community governance in Chile

International Journal of Social Economics ◽

10.1108/ijse-09-2020-0633 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Alejandra Duarte Vera ◽

Julien Vanhulst ◽

Eduardo Antonio Letelier Araya

Keyword(s):

Drinking Water ◽

Urban Areas ◽

Global Climate ◽

Water Governance ◽

Institutional Setting ◽

Community Governance ◽

Content Type ◽

Governance Model ◽

Urban Territories ◽

The City

PurposeRural drinking water services in Chile are managed by Rural Drinking Water Associations (RDWAs) with a community governance model. However, urban growth and a neoliberal institutional setting tend to favor market-style governance, both in terms of territorial planning and drinking water supply, placing stress on the community governance model of RDWA. The authors seek to understand these processes and identify the position of RDWA actors facing socio-territorial and environmental transformations experienced in peri-urban sectors of the city of Talca (Chile).Design/methodology/approachThe authors used georeferenced data, participant and non-participant observation and semi-structured interviews. With these data, the authors analyzed the positions and discourses of water governance actors in relation to socio-territorial transformations in the peri-urban areas of the city, as well as for tensions between community and market governance.FindingsThe authors identified a growth tendency of RDWA users around the city of Talca due to a sharp drinking water demand increase in peri-urban territories. As such, the authors describe and contrast RWDA managers and governmental regulators' discourses regarding environmental and socio-territorial transformations. In these discourses, the authors found three critical topics: (1) land liberalization blurring urban territory borders; (2) Law #20998, a poorly financed reform which raises the specter of RDWA privatization, jeopardizing historic community drinking water management; and (3) the consequences of declining community commitment to RDWAs.Practical implicationsOne key implication of these findings is the need to modify RDWA pricing policies to deal with new rural inhabitant lifestyles and drinking water demands and to fulfill water basic needs of rural families, avoiding privatization risks. This change could help not only dealing with growing scarcity during global climate change, but could also provide financial resources to face new technical and administrative requirements of SSR Law.Originality/valueThe originality of the study comes from using a framework of governance tensions applied to water governance in peri-urban areas in a neoliberal institutional setting.

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The implication of deprivation of freedom on fathering: a qualitative study

Ciencias Psicológicas ◽

10.22235/cp.v14i1.2192 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Sabrina Daiana Cúnico ◽

Marlene Neves Strey ◽

Ângelo Brandelli Costa

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Qualitative Study ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Psychosocial Factors ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Complex Phenomenon ◽

Southern Brazil ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The Family ◽

Penal Institution

This study aims to analyze fathering practices and the meanings attributed to it by imprisoned men. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twelve fathers, incarcerated in a penal institution located in in southern Brazil. Transcribed data were analyzed through the Critical Discourse Analysis. Results are presented according to two themes: Deprivation of freedom X Deprivation of Fatherhood and Criminality X Fatherhood. Our findings indicate that the meanings attributed to fathering practices within deprivation of freedom context rely on different psychosocial factors and the prison context itself. The results presented here demonstrate that paternity in prison is a complex phenomenon and should be a focus of academic problematization. Its relevance is given both in the context of gender studies and in the studies involving the family and different settings.

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Case Selection Criteria, Methods, and Data Treatment

“Ye Shall Know Them by Their Fruits” - Contributions to Economics ◽

10.1007/978-3-030-78498-0_17 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 259-267

Author(s):

Jason García Portilla

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Selection Criteria ◽

Extreme Case ◽

Quantitative Model ◽

Empirical Method ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Data Treatment ◽

Case Selection

AbstractThis chapter examines the criteria for selecting the cases analysed in this study. It explains the application of critical discourse analysis (CDA) as its principal empirical method. It discusses CDA methods and data treatment as well as the empirical analysis of CDA results. Finally, it compares and summarises the case selection criteria.Four countries were compared: Switzerland, Uruguay, Cuba, and Colombia. These cases are also linked to the correlated variables in the quantitative model and to the sufficient conditions in the QCA. Cases were selected based on the “extreme case method”.Each of the selected countries serves as a proxy of a larger group of countries (Latin American Strong Catholic, Secular, Communism, Protestant or mixed Old World.).Critical discourse analysis (CDA) and religion constitute the qualitative method (micro-component). Sixty semi-structured interviews were conducted and analysed using memos and open coding.

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‘Fitting in’ and ‘giving back’: Constructions of Australia’s ‘ideal’ refugee through discourses of assimilation and market citizenship

Journal of Refugee Studies ◽

10.1093/jrs/feaa073 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Ashleigh L Haw

Keyword(s):

Human Capital ◽

Human Rights ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Labour Market ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Economic Success ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Fitting In ◽

The Ideal

Abstract This paper examines how the ‘ideal’ refugee is conceptualized in discussions about Australia’s humanitarian policies. Critical Discourse Analysis of semi-structured interviews with 24 Western Australians revealed strong themes of assimilation alongside the neoliberal concept of ‘market citizenship’, where the ‘ideal’ refugee is positioned as achieving economic success through contributions to Australia’s labour market. These discourses served competing ends—they were voiced both in support of, and opposition to, Australia’s acceptance of refugees. I argue that by constructing refugees’ deservingness of protection along market citizenship lines, their belonging becomes contingent upon their adherence to a narrowly defined ideal. Consequently, refugees who do not fit within this ideal face continued exclusion, with their ‘human capital’ prioritized over their safety and human rights. This article calls for a reconsideration of arguments that focus on refugees’ capacity to ‘fit in’ and ‘give back’ as these narratives may exacerbate their experiences of exclusion and stigmatization.

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Computer-Aided Deductive Critical Discourse Analysis of a Case Study from Mauritius with ATLAS-ti 6.2

Research Methods ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-7456-1.ch079 ◽

2015 ◽

pp. 1831-1853

Author(s):

Komalsingh Rambaree

Keyword(s):

Social Work ◽

Discourse Analysis ◽

Literature Review ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Theoretical Framework ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Secondary Sources ◽

Computer Aided

This chapter considers computer-aided deductive critical discourse analysis with ATLAS-ti 6.2 using a case study on eco-social work research from Mauritius. Data for this case study were gathered in digital audio format from eight focus group discussions, three semi-structured interviews and various reports from secondary sources. For the analysis, a literature review using ATLAS-ti was first carried out, in order to develop a conceptual/theoretical framework related to eco-social work. Then, the gathered data were directly plugged into ATLAS-ti for a computer-aided deductive critical discourse analysis using the developed eco-social work conceptual/theoretical framework from the literature review. Using the case study as an example, this chapter (a) demonstrates the techniques, and (b) appraises the opportunities, limitations and challenges of computer-aided critical discourse analysis.

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One Self to Rule Them All

Advances in Social Networking and Online Communities - Virtual Worlds and Metaverse Platforms ◽

10.4018/978-1-60960-854-5.ch022 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 337-366

Author(s):

Omar V. Rosas ◽

Grégory Dhen

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Identity Construction ◽

Collective Identity ◽

World Of Warcraft ◽

Critical Discourse ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Personal Experiences ◽

French Speaking ◽

Game Practice

This chapter provides a critical discourse analysis of French-speaking players’ personal and collective identity construction in World of Warcraft. Based on sixteen semi-structured interviews conducted online, we have analyzed how players introduce their avatars, the extent to which avatars correspond to or differ from players’ real selves, and how players perceive and construct collective identity within their guilds. The study revealed that most players make use of avatar introduction as a rhetorical pretext to fabricate narratives of personal experiences related to their game practice. In addition, players’ discourses made it evident that avatars constituted either transparent (extensions) or translucent (enhancements) representations of their real selves. Finally, collective identity within guilds was mostly perceived and experienced through shared values that transcend the technical format of the game including sense of belonging, trust, respect, putting things into perspective, and modesty.

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Mehrsprachigkeit in der Bildung in Deutschland – eine Diskursanalyse

Interlitteraria ◽

10.12697/il.2021.26.1.14 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (1) ◽

pp. 198-216

Author(s):

Farin Engels

Keyword(s):

Discourse Analysis ◽

Critical Discourse Analysis ◽

Mother Tongue ◽

Discursive Practice ◽

Future Research ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

The Republic ◽

State Employees ◽

Language Promotion ◽

Education Science

Multilingualism in Education in Germany – a Discourse Analysis. In the Republic of Germany, language acquisition for children with a mother tongue other than German has been a widely discussed topic in education science as well as in public and political discourse over the last decades. Annual studies on preschool and primary education point to the ongoing disadvantage – or even discrimination – suffered by multilingual children in the German education system. Given Germany’s history as a country of immigration, and in light of recent public discussions on the increased immigration of refugees, the question of the problematic’s socio-political background arises. This leads to the issue of linguistic concepts among society and their influence on domestic language policies. This article presents analysis of discourse around languagepolitical concepts and practices among stakeholders in language promotion in the state of North-Rhine Westphalia. Five semi-structured interviews with state employees were analysed following a discourse analytical approach. The analysis, deploying frameworks from the field of Critical Discourse Analysis, focused on the discursive practice of legitimation in the evaluation of multilingualism. Multilingualism as a phenomenon in society appeared to be evaluated according to differing standards (for example correctness or properness) depending on the language. As for evaluation, the analysis indicated an additional dimension in discourse which assigns different groups of speakers a belonging to particular languages. All in all, the collected data pointed to a diverse and ever-changing discourse in the field of language promotion in North-Rhine Westphalia. The presented analysis aims to stimulate a debate and suggests some directions for future research.

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