Overcoming discourses of domination: the use of popular education to address the unequal supply of drinking water in the Zacatecas-Guadalupe metropolitan area

Abstract

Abstract

The objective of this article is to evidence and denaturalize the discourses of domination with which the water bureaucracy justifies to the inhabitants the deficit of drinking water supply. Based on workshops that promote dialogue, reflection and action, we sought to make the affected inhabitants aware that the problem is multifactorial and that they need to get involved, both in demands to the authorities and in the search for proposed solutions. The methodology used was qualitative, with a descriptive design and scope. The type of research was field research. The tool used to collect data was the survey. As main results, it was found that the conditioning discourses influence the lack of action and protests by the inhabitants in search of solutions to the problem of shortages and that, through the intervention of community workshops, the process can gradually generate different behaviors of change and awareness in the affected inhabitants.