In this article, we trace the avatars of the official concept of Buen Vivir (Good Living), and its understanding and translation as Sumak Kausay in the new Constitution of Ecuador, where it was converted from a subaltern concept that emerged in the 1990s to the country’s trademark. Our main hypothesis is that although Buen Vivir may be described as a social phenomenon in some specific social contexts (such as among Amazonian Sarayaku indigenous communities), it mostly represents an invented tradition. As a subordinate hypothesis, we argue that Buen Vivir, which originally appeared at the margins of the State and political power, later became an empty signifier, allowing for its instrumentalization and co-optation by the Citizens’ Revolution...
The notion of "Buen Vivir", literally "to live well", is a notion from the Amerindian Andes expressi...
This article, in its central part, tries to expose more or less succinctly the importance of the con...
In 2008 the constitution of Ecuador was rewritten by its new president—Rafael Correa—to make buen vi...
In this article, we trace the avatars of the official concept of Buen Vivir (Good Living), and its u...
Buen vivir (good life) appeared in the preamble of a country’s most important legislation – its Con...
Buen Vivir has recently emerged in Latin America as an alternative societal model to the historical ...
Core countries, including the United States, and global financial institutions have exerted an unmat...
The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as adv...
Buen vivir (good living) is an alternative postcapitalist and postdevelopmentalist paradigm born in ...
Since the introduction of the Ecuadorian Constitution in 2008, the new concept of Good Living or Sum...
Nowadays, the Andean notion of Vivir Bien is in several Latin-American constitutions, particularly f...
For the first time in the history of Latin America, the new political constitutions of Ecuador and B...
In recent years international relations scholars have focused considerable attention on the position...
The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent buen vivir (‘good life’), Latin America’s ne...
In this article we present a genealogical analysis of the three discourses of good living (indigenou...
The notion of "Buen Vivir", literally "to live well", is a notion from the Amerindian Andes expressi...
This article, in its central part, tries to expose more or less succinctly the importance of the con...
In 2008 the constitution of Ecuador was rewritten by its new president—Rafael Correa—to make buen vi...
In this article, we trace the avatars of the official concept of Buen Vivir (Good Living), and its u...
Buen vivir (good life) appeared in the preamble of a country’s most important legislation – its Con...
Buen Vivir has recently emerged in Latin America as an alternative societal model to the historical ...
Core countries, including the United States, and global financial institutions have exerted an unmat...
The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as adv...
Buen vivir (good living) is an alternative postcapitalist and postdevelopmentalist paradigm born in ...
Since the introduction of the Ecuadorian Constitution in 2008, the new concept of Good Living or Sum...
Nowadays, the Andean notion of Vivir Bien is in several Latin-American constitutions, particularly f...
For the first time in the history of Latin America, the new political constitutions of Ecuador and B...
In recent years international relations scholars have focused considerable attention on the position...
The aim of this paper is to investigate to what extent buen vivir (‘good life’), Latin America’s ne...
In this article we present a genealogical analysis of the three discourses of good living (indigenou...
The notion of "Buen Vivir", literally "to live well", is a notion from the Amerindian Andes expressi...
This article, in its central part, tries to expose more or less succinctly the importance of the con...
In 2008 the constitution of Ecuador was rewritten by its new president—Rafael Correa—to make buen vi...