A Road to Conflict: Stakeholder’s and Social Network Analysis of the Media Portrayals of a Social-Environmental Conflict in Bolivia
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in: Society and Natural Resources, Jahrgang 32, Nr. 4, 03.04.2019, S. 452-472.
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T1 - A Road to Conflict
T2 - Stakeholder’s and Social Network Analysis of the Media Portrayals of a Social-Environmental Conflict in Bolivia
AU - Reyes-García, Victoria
AU - Andrés-Conejero, Oriol
AU - Fernández-Llamazares, Álvaro
AU - Díaz-Reviriego, Isabel
AU - Molina, José Luis
PY - 2019/4/3
Y1 - 2019/4/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Indigenous Peoples
KW - Isiboro-Sécure Indigenous Territory and National Park
KW - social movements
KW - social network analysis
KW - social-environmental conflict
KW - stakeholder analysis
KW - Ecosystems Research
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U2 - 10.1080/08941920.2018.1539199
DO - 10.1080/08941920.2018.1539199
M3 - Journal articles
AN - SCOPUS:85060350904
VL - 32
SP - 452
EP - 472
JO - Society and Natural Resources
JF - Society and Natural Resources
SN - 0894-1920
IS - 4
ER -