Contention strikes back? The discursive, instrumental and institutional tactics implemented by coal sector incumbents in Colombia
| Autor: | Claudia Strambo, Ana Carolina González Espinosa, Luis Miguel Mateus Molano, Angélica Johanna Puertas Velasco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment business.industry Status quo media_common.quotation_subject Fossil fuel 0211 other engineering and technologies Coal mining Exportation Energy Engineering and Power Technology 02 engineering and technology Energy transition 01 natural sciences Politics Fuel Technology Nuclear Energy and Engineering Political economy Narrative 021108 energy business Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Legitimacy 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common |
| Zdroj: | Energy Research & Social Science. 59:101280 |
| ISSN: | 2214-6296 |
| Popis: | Over the past decade, large-scale coal production and exportation has become an important activity for Colombia's economy. However, this sector is now facing a range of domestic and international social and economic pressures. This article seeks to fill what appears to be a shared gap in the energy transition and natural resource governance research fields: the ways through which incumbent actors of the fossil fuel regime respond to socio-economic pressures and actively resist change. Based on a case study on large-scale coal production in Colombia, we analyze incumbent actors' discursive, instrumental and institutional political strategies to maintain the status quo and shed light on their preliminary intended and unexpected results. We find that although instrumental strategies continue to be important, discursive ones aiming at influencing public narratives have gained increased ground within companies and government´s officials. Yet, new contention strategies do not seem to guarantee incumbents structural power and paradoxically could hinder their already eroded legitimacy. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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