The discourse of economic growth in Peru: Analysis of the presidential messages in the governments of Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and Martín Vizcarra.
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2020
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Official discourses on a country's development are often not investigated even though they build systems of representation of a country's economic, social and ecological reality. In Peru, it has become naturalized that extractivism is the engine of the economy. This myth is not only reproduced in the discourses of the mining business sector, but also in political discourses, especially the official discourse. In this paper, we analyze the concept of “economic development” that former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and current President Martín Vizcarra had in their presidential messages in order to show that this discourse is maintained in the national agenda. For the analysis, the methodology of Fairclough's Critical Analysis of the Discourse (1992) and Escobar's Post-Development concepts (2005) are used. With this work, it is concluded that there is continuity in the political discourse on the 'economic development' of the country.
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Crecimiento, Desarrollo, Extractivismo, Empresa, Estado, Discurso oficial