Entender el extractivismo en regiones fronterizas. Monocultivos y despojo en las fronteras de Costa Rica

Echavarría, Tania Rodríguez; Campos, Alexa Obando; Alvarado, Marylaura Acuña

doi:10.31840/sya.v0i17.1845

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“…The Nile, the Mekong, the Amazon, the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna, the Tigris-Euphrates, the Rhine; such river basins have been the subject of many studies. The Sixaola river basin, on the other hand, is at the other end of the spectrum, with much less analyses devoted to it [4], [5]. Therefore, reflecting on why we choose the Sixaola -a basin no bigger than 3,000 km 2 -as our case study is pertinent.…”

Section: Why the Sixaola River Basinmentioning

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Deconstructing Power Dynamics and Prevailing Discourses in Hydropolitics: The Case of the Sixaola River Basin

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Rodríguez-Echevarría

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WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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The Sixaola river basin, shared between Costa Rica and Panama, is generally seen as one of the basins most prone to transboundary water cooperation. In the spotlight of the international community since the 1990s, the Sixaola basin has been framed as a prime example for multi-actor, multi-level, and multisector transboundary water governance, especially with the creation of the Binational Commission for the Sixaola River Basin (CBCRS for its name in Spanish). Still, one key question remains: who (and how) is behind such conceptual framing of the Sixaola basin? In other words, what actors have succeeded in defining the social reality of the Sixaola, and how has this reality affected the water governance? By looking at the discourses' evolution in the Sixaola basin, we aim to deconstruct the power dynamics underlining such discursive struggle. We employ Marteen Hajer's argumentative approach to discourse analysis to identify dominant storylines, practices and discourse coalitions, emphasising the role of international organisations. With this discursive approach, we examine how the Sixaola problem's boundaries (and ideas guiding the solutions to such problem) have changed in the past three decades. Our preliminary results show that international organisations have successfully framed the Sixaola "problematique" as local, while infusing it with a constant regional Central American perspective. Moreover, transboundary water governance has focused on sustainable economic practices to prevent biodiversity loss and land/water degradation, but with large banana companies at the margins. Finally, it remains unclear how international organisations have translated their discourses into national policies and regulations, beyond creating and strengthening the CBCRS as a platform for transboundary water cooperation.

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confidence: 99%

Deconstructing Power Dynamics and Prevailing Discourses in Hydropolitics: The Case of the Sixaola River Basin

Ezbakhe

Bréthaut

Rodríguez-Echevarría

et al. 2021

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

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Extractivismo agrícola, frontera y fuerza de trabajo migrante: La expansión del monocultivo de piña en Costa Rica

Echavarría

Prunier²

2020

Frontera norte

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Since the 1980s, Costa Rica has been promoting intensive pineapple cultivation mainly in the northern border area with Nicaragua. This article seeks to study the relationship that exists between agricultural extractivism as a development model, global agrifood chains and border regions as “spaces of opportunity” due to their peripheral situation, the presence of natural resources, flexible and cheap labor force originating in this case from Nicaragua. We will demonstrate how this type of productive activity generates territories of border dispossession in which the relations of spatially anchored domination are materialized, such as the accumulation of land, bad working conditions, the exploitation of irregular migrant labor and environmental pollution.

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L’insertion de l’Amérique centrale dans le marché mondial : ancienneté et effets des logiques capitalistes sur les territoires

Medina¹,

Echavarría²

2021

l'Information Géographique

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Depuis l’époque coloniale, l’économie de l’Amérique centrale dépend de l’extérieur, elle est une région du monde où les dynamiques transnationales sont multiples et anciennes, liées à la double dimension intercontinentale et interocéanique de l’Isthme. L’objet de l’article est de contribuer à analyser l’intégration de l’Amérique centrale dans la mondialisation et les marchés internationaux, et comment cette intégration a façonné les paysages et entraîné des mutations territoriales importantes. Le plan de l’article s’organise en deux parties. Dans un premier temps, il s’agira de montrer l’ancienneté et les caractères spécifiques de la place de l’Amérique centrale dans le champ de forces géopolitiques et géoéconomiques qui s’impriment dans le cadre d’une économie mondialisée. La deuxième partie développe un exemple illustratif, celui de l’extension récente des plantations d’ananas au Costa Rica.

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Entender el extractivismo en regiones fronterizas. Monocultivos y despojo en las fronteras de Costa Rica

Cited by 6 publications

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Deconstructing Power Dynamics and Prevailing Discourses in Hydropolitics: The Case of the Sixaola River Basin

Deconstructing Power Dynamics and Prevailing Discourses in Hydropolitics: The Case of the Sixaola River Basin

Extractivismo agrícola, frontera y fuerza de trabajo migrante: La expansión del monocultivo de piña en Costa Rica

L’insertion de l’Amérique centrale dans le marché mondial : ancienneté et effets des logiques capitalistes sur les territoires

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