A road to conflict : stakeholder's and social network analysis of the media portrayals of a social-environmental conflict in Bolivia
Reyes-García, Victoria (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Andrés Conejero, Oriol (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals)
Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro (Helsingin yliopisto. Bio- ja ym­pä­ris­tö­tie­teel­li­nen tiede­kunta)
Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)
Molina, José Luis (Molina González) (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament d'Antropologia Social i Cultural)

Date:	2019
Abstract:	Society's understanding of a conflict is mediated by information provided in mass media, for which researchers stress the importance of analyzing media portrays of stakeholders in a conflict. We analyze information from the Bolivian press regarding the construction of a road crossing the Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park (TIPNIS). Using stakeholder's and social network analyses, we explore stakeholder's positions and alliances as represented in the media and contrast it with previous scholarly work. We found that some actors cited as central in scholar analyses of the conflict are largely absent in the media (e. g. , private investors, conservationist sector) and that the media tend to present stakeholders as having more homogeneous positions than the academic literature does while also neglecting some important alliances in their account. The media also suggests that Indigenous communities are forging stronger alliances with urban sectors and civil society, alliances not stressed by researchers.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MDM-2015-0552
Note:	Unidad de excelencia María de Maeztu MdM-2015-0552
Rights:	Tots els drets reservats.
Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Indigenous Peoples ; Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park ; Social movements ; Social network analysis ; Social-environmental conflict ; Stakeholder analysis
Published in:	Society & natural resources, Vol. 32, issue 42019 (2019) , ISSN 0894-1920

DOI: 10.1080/08941920.2018.1539199

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