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Hydropower in Cambodia: Competing discursive story-lines of a contested development path

ຈັດພິມໂດຍ: Open Development Cambodia

This thesis uses discourse to analyze how different story-lines of hydropower development in the Mekong River Basin reproduce the concept of sustainable development. With actors advocating sometimes diametrically opposite development paths resulting in different social, economic and environmental trade-offs they all refer to and motivate their agendas in terms of sustainable development. I applied a qualitative approach facilitated through semi-structured interviews to engage multiple actors in the discourses of hydropower. Using the concepts of story-lines, discursive elements and discursive closure I investigate three tracks in the debate on hydropower development pertaining to Cambodia’s downstream position on the Mekong River. By problematizing the concept of sustainable development in regard to hydropower, the thesis demonstrates how its ambiguity can propel debate and I argue that the concept’s vagueness is to be seen a potential strength rather than a weakness. The thesis found that strong hydropower proponents tend to emphasis economic aspects of sustainable development succeeded by the environmental and social. Opponents on the other hand demonstrated a reversed tendency while a middle-track expresses difficulties in connecting the two extremes.

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ສະບັບທີ / ຄັ້ງທີ 1.0
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ຜູ້ຂຽນ (ບຸກຄົນ) Johannes​ Nilsson
ສະຖານທີ່ຈັດພິມ Lund University
ຜູ້ຈັດພິມ Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University
ປີຈັດພິມ 2015
ຈຳນວນໜ້າ 58
ຄຳສັບຫຼັກ Sustainable Development,Mekong River,Story-lines,Discursive Elements,Discursive Closure
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