2012 - English - Practical
Social Enterprises for Development as Buen Viv…
The purpose of this paper is to provide a conceptual overview of linkages between buen vivir and social enterprise as emerging from a review of the literature regarding indigenous development approaches in Latin America.
2016 - English - Practical
Development Alternatives in Bolivia: The Impul…
This article looks at Buen Vivir in Bolivia in its recent political context.
2012 - English - Technical
Development for a postneoliberal era? Sumak ka…
Through a detailed examination of the origins and application of one development model, this article examines the constraints on and limits to postneoliberal development in terms of state-civil society relations and as a form of postcolonial governmentality.
2013 - English - Practical
Good Life as a Social Movement Proposal for Na…
Good Life as a Social Movement Proposal for Natural Resource Use: The Indigenous Movement in Ecuador
The Ecuadorian indigenous movement has developed the concept of Good Life (Sumak Kawsay or Buen Vivir) as a conceptual weapon in order to defend the territories of indigenous nationalities as the movement itself defines them.
2011 - English - Academic
Pachakuti: Indigenous Perspectives, Buen Vivir…
Bob Thomson argues that understanding the limits to growth for our finite planet is slowly gaining currency due to the (mostly) European sustainable degrowth ‘movement’ and a plurinational Latin American cosmovision which is largely indigenous but also criollo.
2014 - English - Academic
Buen Vivir: Emergent Discourse within or beyon…
This paper sets out to review the content of Buen vivir (‘good living’) as an emergent discourse, reflecting on its genesis and contributions to the sustainability debate, as well as on incipient attempts at its institutionalization.