scholarly journals Deconstruction and Genealogy of Latin American Good Living (Buen Vivir). The (Triune) Good Living

2017 ◽  
pp. 23-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán ◽  
Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Good Living

scholarly journals Semillas y caminos para la educación latinoamericana en tiempos de incertidumbre

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Carlos Crespo Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Sumak Kawsay ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Educational Movements

En América Latina vivimos un quiebre en las tendencias de los procesos políticos y sociales de cambio que venían desenvolviéndose en la primera década y media del presente siglo. En este contexto de incertidumbre, las sociedades se encuentran en la encrucijada ante las vías posibles que se abren a la educación: ¿igualdad, inclusión o competitividad para el mercado? Este artículo pasa revista por algunas importantes resignifi caciones planteadas a la educación en las últimas décadas por diversos movimientos sociales y educativos en América Latina, en el escenario de transformaciones sociales y políticas en que algunos Estados contribuyeron a la revitalización de la educación pública como un derecho humano. Nuevas generaciones exigen la educación como derecho y no quieren más educación como lucro. Pueblos indígenas proponen otros sentidos de la educación dentro del paradigma del Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay) o Vivir Bien (Suma Qamaña), buscan posicionar un nuevo signifi cado de la vida, en el horizonte de una nueva espiritualidad y convivencia. Estas alternativas ofrecen señales de posibles caminos frente al oscurecimiento humano que presenciamos actualmente.Palabras clave: Sentidos de la educación. Alternativas al desarrollo. Pertinencia cultural. Sementes e estradas para a educação latino-americana em tempos de incertezaRESUMONa América Latina vivemos uma ruptura nas tendências dos processos políticos e sociais de mudança que se desdobraram na primeira década e meia deste século. Nesse contexto de incerteza, as sociedades estão na encruzilhada diante de possíveis caminhos abertos à educação: igualdade, inclusão ou competitividade para o mercado? Este artigo analisa algumas ressignificações importantes da educação nas últimas décadas por diversos movimentos sociais e educacionais da América Latina, no cenário de transformações sociais e políticas em que alguns Estados contribuíram para a revitalização da educação pública como direito humano. As novas gerações exigem educação como um direito e não querem mais educação como lucro. Os povos indígenas propõem outras formas de educação dentro do paradigma do bem viver (Sumak Kawsay) ou segundo Living Well (Suma Qamaña) buscar um novo sentido da vida, no horizonte de uma nova espiritualidade e convívio. Essas alternativas oferecem sinais de possíveis caminhos contrários ao obscurecimento humano que estamos testemunhando atualmente.Palavras-chave: Sentidos da educação. Alternativas ao desenvolvimento. Relevância cultural. Seeds and roads for Latin American education in times of uncertaintyABSTRACTIn Latin America we have lived a break in the trends of the political and social processes of change that had been unfolding in the fi rst decade and a half of this century. In this context of uncertainty, societies are at the crossroads before the possible paths open to education: equality, inclusion or competitiveness for the market? This article reviews some important resignifi cations of education in recent decades by various social and educational movements in Latin America, in the scenario of social and political transformations where some States contributed to the revitalization of public education as a human right. New generations demand education as a right, they do not want more education as a profi t. Indigenous peoples propose other meanings of education within the paradigm of Good Living (Sumak Kawsay) or Living Well (Suma Qamaña), seeking to position a new meaning of life, on the horizon of a new spirituality and coexistence. These alternatives off er signs of possible paths against the human obscuration that we are witnessing today.Keywords: Senses of education. Alternatives to development. Cultural relevance.

scholarly journals «SOMOS UN PUEBLO, PRECISAMOS UN TERRITORIO PORQUE ALLÍ ES DONDE SE DA LA VIDA INDÍGENA; SIN TERRITORIO NO HAY IDENTIDAD COMO PUEBLO». BUEN VIVIR EN ARGENTINA

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Morita Carrasco ◽  
Silvina Ramírez
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Development Models ◽  
Interdisciplinary Perspective ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Latin American Countries ◽  
Legal Consequences ◽  
Made In

El artículo aborda una perspectiva respecto del surgimiento de la noción del buen vivir, asociado a dos modelos de desarrollo en los países de Latinoamérica. Analiza las posibles consecuencias legales emanadas de la incorporación del respeto a la naturaleza en las constituciones de Bolivia y Ecuador. Desde una mirada interdisciplinaria que articula finalmente posiciones del derecho y la antropología, el artículo propone un análisis de algunos pronunciamientos y documentos de pueblos indígenas en la Argentina para comprender el sentido que estos dan al buen vivir, sin nombrarlo de este modo. «WE ARE A PEOPLE. WE NEED A TERRITORY BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE INDIGENOUS LIFE TAKES PLACE. WITHOUT A TERRITORY, THERE IS NO IDENTITY AS A PEOPLE». BUEN VIVIR IN ARGENTINA This article views the emergence of the notion of good living (buen vivir), associated to development models in Latin American countries. It analyzes the possible legal consequences derived from the inclusion of the notion of respect for nature within the constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador. From an interdisciplinary perspective that ultimately articulates positions drawn from law and anthropology, the article proposes an analysis of some statements and documents the indigenous peoples from Argentina have made in order to understand the meaning they place on the notion of good living, without naming it as such.  

Buen vivir (Good Living): A “Glocal” Genealogy of a Latin American Utopia for the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2110092
Author(s):  
Adrián E. Beling ◽  
Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara ◽  
Julien Vanhulst ◽  
Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Living ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Multiple Actors

Buen vivir (good living) discourse emerged at the turn of the century in the context of global political contestation around the prevailing development model at the intersection of multiple actors, discourses, and struggles. A genealogical reconstruction of this discourse disputes the ethnocentric character often attributed to it outside Latin America as an allegedly indigenous discursive product. Instead, buen vivir is a prime example of “glocal” discursive articulation in pursuit of alter- and postdevelopmentalist utopias—a cultural-political experiment that holds valuable lessons for global debates around alternative socio-ecological futures. El discurso del “buen vivir” surgió a principios de siglo en el contexto de la contienda política global en torno al modelo de desarrollo prevaleciente en la intersección de múltiples actores, discursos y luchas. Una reconstrucción genealógica de dicho discurso cuestiona el carácter etnocéntrico que a menudo se le atribuye fuera de América Latina, donde se le mira como un producto discursivo supuestamente indígena. Sin embargo, el buen vivir es un excelente ejemplo de articulación discursiva “glocal” en busca de utopías alter-y postdesarrollistas, un experimento cultural-político que puede brindar valiosas lecciones a los debates globales en torno a futuros socioecológicos alternativos.

Climate Change, Buen Vivir, and the Dialectic of Enlightenment: Toward a Feminist Critical Philosophy of Climate Justice

Hypatia ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 576-598 ◽  
Author(s):  
Regina Cochrane
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Indigenous Women ◽  
Climate Justice ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Negative Dialectics ◽  
Dialectical Approach ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Climate Crisis

This paper examines the proposal that the indigenous cosmovision of buen vivir (good living)—the “organizing principle” of Ecuador's 2008 and Bolivia's 2009 constitutional reforms—constitutes an appropriate basis for responding to climate change. Advocates of this approach blame climate change on a “civilizational crisis” that is fundamentally a crisis of modern Enlightenment reason. Certain Latin American feminists and indigenous women, however, question the implications, for women, of any proposed “civilizational shift” seeking to reverse the human separation from nonhuman nature wrought via Enlightenment's “disenchantment of nature.” The paper argues that, in order to adequately address both the climate crisis and feminist concerns about buen vivir, a different critique of Enlightenment modernity is necessary—one drawing on Adorno's philosophy of negative dialectics and on Adorno and Horkheimer's nonidentitarian dialectical understanding of Enlightenment. Conceiving Enlightenment as composed of nonsublatable moments of domination and liberation, Adorno and Horkheimer call for a rational critique of reason and for affinity rather than identity with nonhuman nature. The paper ends with a brief discussion of how feminist critiques of buen vivir and approaches to climate justice can be furthered via an engagement with an environmental feminist philosophy informed by a negative dialectical approach to Enlightenment.

scholarly journals The materialization of the Buen Vivir and the Rights of Nature: Rhetoric and Realities of Guayaquil Ecológico urban regeneration project

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Fernanda Ordóñez ◽  
Kelly Shannon ◽  
Viviana d’Auria
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Context ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Rights Of Nature ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Natural Dynamics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractIn 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare nature as a subject of rights based on the ‘Buen Vivir’ (Good Living) philosophy which is premised on an indigenous principle that envisions a world where humans are part-and-parcel of a larger natural and social environment. Although Ecuador’s constitution is groundbreaking from a legal standpoint, the question arises of how the rights of nature is spatially manifested beyond the designation of protected areas? To shed light on such interrogation, this article, based on qualitative research, focuses on the linear park component of the mega-project Guayaquil Ecológico heralded as a first materialization which champions the “Rights of Nature” under the vision of the Buen Vivir. It unravels the contested rhetoric and realities of the Guayaquil Ecológico linear park in a critical review of the as-built project in relation to the larger objectives of Buen Vivir. The Guayaquil Ecologico linear park promised to simultaneously upgrade both social and environmental dimensions. However, it did not fully address the complexity of Guayaquil’s socio-ecological context and some of the structural injustices of the estuarine territory. Buen Vivir was rhetorically mobilised to implement a project where aesthetic dimensions dominated, further perpetuating socio-ecological vulnerabilities through relocation and evictions. Furthermore, its implementation was dependent on a specific political moment, leaving it in a state of abandonment and neglect. The Buen Vivir philosophy—as a decolonial stance that challenges western forms of development—can offer a fundamental base to question current modes of territorial occupation based on extractivist planning and design strategies. It holds significant potential to serve as base to re-think the relationship between forms of settlement, natural dynamics, and worldviews.

The Age of Transition: Postdevelopment and North-South Synergies

2021 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2110603
Author(s):  
Parisa Nourani Rinaldi
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Critical Thought

The development enterprise has deepened the maladaptation of a social order built on the values of modernity and coloniality. Postcolonial scholars critiqued the discourses that were perpetuating its failures. Latin American decolonial scholars sharpened the analysis, rejecting Eurocentric frames of thought and drawing on a plurality of voices and ways of knowing. Mounting evidence of global socio-ecological interdependence has led to the emergence of discourses of transition advocating a break with the civilizational model of the modern West. Buen vivir and postextractivism are two Latin American examples of these discourses. Although there are divergences between these and Northern transition discourses, the scale of civilizational transition renders dialogue imperative. A review of the path of Latin American critical thought raises the possibility of North-South synergies, highlighting the implications of a true dialogue of ways of knowing. El proyecto del desarrollo ha profundizado la mala adaptación de un orden social construido sobre los valores de la modernidad y la colonialidad. Los analistas poscoloniales hicieron una crítica de los discursos que perpetuaban dichos fracasos. Los académicos descoloniales latinoamericanos fueron más allá, rechazando marcos de pensamiento eurocéntricos y recurriendo a una pluralidad de voces y formas de saber. La creciente evidencia en torno a la interdependencia socioecológica global ha llevado a la aparición de discursos de transición que abogan por una ruptura con el modelo civilizatorio del Occidente moderno. El buen vivir y el posextractivismo son dos ejemplos latinoamericanos de estos discursos. Aunque hay divergencias entre ellos y los discursos de transición del Norte, la escala de la transición civilizatoria exige el diálogo. Una revisión de la línea de pensamiento crítico latinoamericano plantea la posibilidad de sinergias Norte-Sur, destacando las implicaciones de un verdadero diálogo de saberes.

scholarly journals Los caminos del buen vivir

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Wilson Martínez Guaca ◽  
Dianny Guerrero Montilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Present Article ◽  
World System ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Maximum Expression

El presente artículo sobre el buen vivir, que se ha convertido en un paradigma de los pueblos originarios que ofrece una salida al desarrollismo racional, hace un recorrido por la visión general del concepto, se detiene en las concepciones indígenas de Bolivia con énfasis en los aymara y los quechuas, de Ecuador con el pueblo kichwa y los pueblos amazónicos, de Paraguay con el pueblo guaraní y de Colombia con el pueblo nasa.  Abstract The present article about Buen vivir (good living), which has become a paradigm of the original people as a way out of rational developmentalism, takes a tour through the general vision of the concept, stopping in the indigenous conceptions of Bolivia with the Aymara and the Quechuas, from Ecuador with the Kichwa and the Amazonian people, from Paraguay with the Guaraní people and from Colombia with the Nasa people. It afterwards extends in postures such as those of the pluriverse and the cosmo-community, and in general of the anti-systemic and ecological social movements, to arrive at an approach from political culture found in Ecuador and Bolivia constitutions to its maximum expression, and in several studies that propose it as the exit to visions of development, progress and the capitalist world system, as well as a different political option to capitalism and socialism.

scholarly journals APRENDER A APRENDER… (LEARN TO LEARN)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Flor Abarca-Alpízar
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Good Living ◽  
The University

En nuestras búsquedas para la promoción de los aprendizajes universitarios con sentido y significado para las y los estudiantes universitario, tenemos la inmensa responsabilidad de conservar aquello que nos humaniza, siendo flexibles ante nuestras dependencias, obediencias, desconfianzas e inseguridades por lo nuevo; sintiéndonos parte de lo observado, asumiendo con amor y gozo nuestras responsabilidades: los interaprendizajes entre seres humanos.Los aprendizajes con sentido son parte de la integralidad de la vida, de nuestro autoconocimiento e inteligencia espiritual, necesitamos reconocerlos como parte del  flujo universal de la vida y aplicarlos en nuestro quehacer cotidiano como académicos y académicas universitarios.  Los aprendizajes y la vida son la misma cosa, porque necesitamos de los aprendizajes para vivir, para cuidarnos como seres vivos en conexión con Gaia, nuestra Madre Tierra.Palabras clave: Aprendizajes con sentido, Mediación Pedagógica, Integralidad, Buen vivir, Transdisciplinariedad.Abstract In our search for the promotion of the university learning with meaning and significance to the university and students, have the great responsibility to preserve what makes us human, being flexible about our facilities, obedience, mistrust and insecurity for the new, feeling part of noted, with love and joy assuming our responsibilities: the shared learning among humans. Meaningful learning are part of the wholeness of life, our self-knowledge and spiritual understanding, we need to recognize them as part of the universal flow of life and apply them in our daily lives as scholars and university academics. Learning and life are the same thing, because we need to live learning to take care of as living in connection with Gaia, our Mother Earth.Keywords: Learning with respect Pedagogical Mediation, Integrity Good living, Transdisciplinariedad

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