Ecuador’s Buen Vivir

Latin American Development: Perspectives and Debates

One of the recurring topics in Latin American debates refers to the dynamics of accumulation and the current models of development. Critical categories such as Extractivism or Neoextractivism, as well as pro-positive ones like Buen Vivir, Common Goods, Rights of Nature, Post-extractivism, among others, traverse social struggles and debates, and are generating a new political grammar that questi...

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. Starting in 2002, petroleum exploitation in indigenous areas in the Amazon has been denounced as an attack against the principles of the traditional concept of Good Life. ...

The Serrana Undressed: Re-framing the Reading of the Archpriest's Fourth Mountain Encounter in the Libro de buen amor

Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

This paper seeks to initiate a conversation between degrowth (DG) and postdevelopment (PD) frameworks by placing them within the larger field of discourses for ecological and civilizational transitions and by bridging proposals emerging from the North with those from the Global South. Not only can this dialogue, it is argued, be mutually enriching for bothmovements but perhaps essential for an ...

[An approach to the assessment of the effectiveness of a drug use prevention program in secondary education in Andalusia].

This article examines the analysis of drug use among Secondary Education students in Andalusia from two different studies: the Health Behavior in School-aged Children Study (HBSC), in its 2006 edition, and a study assessing the implementation of the Prevenir para Vivir ("Prevent to Live") drug use prevention program in the education field. To this end, on the one hand the paper analyzes the use...