Historia, medios y poder a 20 años de la Guerra del Agua
Cochabamba’s Water War was a social conflict who developed and had place in this bolivian city during the year 2000. Taking the recomendations from The World Bank, the bolivian goverment implemented a very neoliberal-economical adjustment plan who reached unprecedent limits when Cochabamba’s Townshi...
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Revista Latinoamericana en Comunicación, Educación e Historia
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/comedhi/article/view/34279 |
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| Sumario: | Cochabamba’s Water War was a social conflict who developed and had place in this bolivian city during the year 2000. Taking the recomendations from The World Bank, the bolivian goverment implemented a very neoliberal-economical adjustment plan who reached unprecedent limits when Cochabamba’s Township decided to privatize the water service.This article counts with different paragraphs, who can be recognized in three main parts. The first one, where the facts who ocurred that year can be finded into an historical summary. This review it’s focused on the relationship between Cochabamba’s Municipality and how it awarded the international and private enterprise Aguas del Tunari to provide the water service.The second part brings a vinculative analysis beetween the facts who taked place in that context, trough concepts as economism, biopolitics, governmentality and power-devices crisis. All notions under Michel Foucault’s estructuralistliterature.At last, the third part brings bolivian’s mass media role on a critic moment of the Water War and how their concentration can affect the visibilization of this popular phenomenon. Also analises which kind of treatment the facts gets from the media. |
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