Abstract

TORRES-SOLIS, Mauricio  and  RAMIREZ-VALVERDE, Benito. Good Living and Living Well: Alternatives to Development in Latin America. Latinoamérica [online]. 2019, n.69, pp.71-97. ISSN 2448-6914.  https://doi.org/10.22201/cialc.24486914e.2019.69.57106.

The paper proposes a discussion about the ideas that surround development and its alternatives as discourses and representative elements of social reality in Latin America. After a thorough review of bibliographical sources, the first part of the document shows some normative and descriptive definitions on development, as a category that is deployed, so that to immediately receive criticism and reconfigure itself under new versions, being the neoextractivism its most recent expression. The second part of the text focuses on the alternatives to development, considering the region’s indigenous cosmo-experiences, thus, the origins, conceptualizations and theoretical interpretations of buenos vivires (good living) as proposals that have extended to debates on the political economy of development, and as possible paradigmatic alternatives to overcome the challenges facing the 21st century humanity.

Keywords : Fulfilling life; Genealogy; Sumak Kawsay; Suma Qamaña.

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