Browsing by Subject "Colombia"
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(2020)El tema de este trabajo de fin de máster es el uso de las formas de tratamiento de segunda persona del singular (tú, usted y sumercé) en el habla de un grupo de personas nacidas en Bogotá (Colombia) y residentes en Finlandia. El objetivo de nuestro estudio es proponer un paradigma del uso de las formas de tratamiento usadas por estos hablantes que esté determinado por aspectos sociolingüísticos y contextuales. Para ello llevamos a cabo un análisis cualitativo del material recogido en nuestro corpus, compuesto de grabaciones de audio que recogen tanto diálogos e interacciones reales, como entrevistas a los participantes. Para el análisis tomamos como fuentes principales las teorías de poder y solidaridad desarrolladas por Brown y Gilman (1960), la teoría de la cortesía de Brown y Levinson (1987) y la teoría de los índices contextuales propuesta por Blas Arroyo (2005). Así mismo y como fuentes secundarias, presentamos diferentes estudios que analizan el fenómeno de las formas de tratamiento en otros países hispanohablantes y en Colombia. Este cuerpo de estudios está compuesto por artículos académicos, trabajos de fin de máster y artículos periodísticos. En el análisis cualitativo vemos cómo las formas de tratamiento estudiadas varían de acuerdo a la situación de habla y las relaciones establecidas entre los hablantes. Las grabaciones de interacciones reales permiten un acercamiento a los usos de las formas de tratamiento, mientras que las entrevistas ofrecen un análisis hecho por los mismos hablantes sobre las razones de su elección. Nuestros resultados muestran que el uso de las formas de tratamiento en el grupo analizado presenta un desafío importante a la hora de intentar establecer un paradigma. La elección de la forma de tratamiento a usar es un proceso que varía según el desarrollo de la conversación y, por tanto, resulta ineficiente establecer parámetros fijos que permitan predecir la forma a usar. Sin embargo, los resultados muestran tendencias en la elección de las formas de tratamiento usadas, con lo cual es posible establecer escenarios posibles donde se usen formas de tratamiento específicas.
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(2016)This Master’s Thesis discusses the Publicness of public telecommunications services through the case study of the Empresa de Telecomunicaciones de Bogotá – ETB. Dimensional Publicness is a degree to which an organization is endowed or constrained by political authority. The main objective of this research was to identify an alternative point of view to the public versus private discourse, taking a closer look to what influences organizational behavior and how these influences affect the public character of an organization. It is a qualitative case study that contributes to the discussion on the governance of infrastructure and service delivery, critical urban research, and organization theory. This work also serves as a case study of the current dynamics of planning politics in the global south. The data consists of primary and secondary sources, which consisted of digital newspaper articles, interviews, official reports, legal documents, information requests, academic literature, and raw data. The findings highlight a strong regulated political authority and affinity to public values, that has had both a positive and negative impact on ETB’s behavior, and affirm that a debate on ownership is minimal if we think on the greater picture of the role of companies for development. The focus should not only be on questioning which sector is best to deliver, rather answer what do we want out of companies and public services, or any service in general. There is a need to place organization behavior in a context of affinity to public sector values, enriched with political inputs from both society and the State, without discarding the imperative of financial and organizational sustainability. This research hopes to be a source of unified information on the privatization debate of ETB, a unique approach to Dimensional Publicness, and input for alternative arguments outside the outdated public-private ownership divide. Answering these inquiries also provide inputs on discovering empirically the current telecommunications framework in Colombia, spaces for improvement for ways to strengthen community and promote citizenship in the city’s telecommunication service delivery framework.
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(2023)This thesis studies the relationship between resistance and transportation infrastructure. The aim is to explore the links between the material and cultural contexts around strategically important transportation infrastructure and social movements with strategies to disrupt the flows of infrastructural networks. These issues are studied through the case of the civic strike of Buenaventura and related social mobilisation during the period of 2017-2022, in which the operations of one of Colombia’s most strategic ports have been brought to a halt for weeks at a time. The study examines the context of the strike through the theoretical frameworks of extractivist capital, infrastructure related grievances, racism, and structural unemployment caused by dispossession. The thesis discusses the themes of ethno-territorial conflict and colonialism using various theorists from the field of development studies and political sciences. This thesis portrays how the mobilisation in Buenaventura stems from the historical process in which the Afro-Colombian communities have created and defended an alternative model for development that highlights the collective rights of local communities. This thesis was conducted as a qualitative case study that uses content analysis as a method of analysis. This ethnographically oriented research was conducted as participatory observation, semi-structured interviews, and integrative literary research. The data consists of NGO reports and interviews with local activists, social leaders, academics, and government officials, alongside an in-depth theoretical review. This study shows that traditional ways of understanding capital and labour resistance offer useful information but are not adequate for explaining the context behind social movements targeting infrastructural networks. Rather than resorting to traditional means of labour suppression, the division between local communities and infrastructural actors has been created through processes of exclusion, leading to a situation in which local communities have little access to the port and the wealth generated by its activities. The analysis led to the conclusion that issues of land rights, colonialism, infrastructural development, violence, and corruption are all embedded in the dynamics of state neglect towards the communities around the port of Buenaventura.
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