Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America
Title | Buen Vivir and the Challenges to Capitalism in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Veltmeyer |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 363 |
Release | 2020-10-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000198871 |
This book explores the battleground between neoliberal capitalist development processes in Latin America and the challenges to these systems that can be found through innovative community-driven buen vivir/vivir bien initiatives. In the current climate of worldwide capitalist development, Latin America is caught between left-leaning proposals for progressive policies towards a more inclusive form of development, and the re-emergence of harsh austerity measures, neoliberal reforms and right-wing populism. Divided into two parts, this book first provides a retrospective analysis of the advance of resource-seeking ‘extractive’ capital across the continent since the 1990s. The second part goes on to focus on forward-looking challenges to neoliberal capitalist development, focusing in particular on the indigenous notion of buen vivir/vivir bien – the concept of ‘living well’ in social solidarity and harmony with nature. Drawing on cases in Mexico and Venezuela, the book argues that it will be through these new approaches to social change that we will move beyond development as we know it towards a more inclusive form of ‘postdevelopment’. Looking hopefully towards this future of development, this collection offers an essential analysis of the vortex of social change currently consuming Latin America and will be key reading for advanced scholars and researchers in the fields of Development Studies, Latin America Studies, Politics, and Social Change.
Beyond Development
Title | Beyond Development PDF eBook |
Author | Miriam Lang |
Publisher | |
Pages | 195 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Latin America |
ISBN | 9789070563240 |
Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization
Title | Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization PDF eBook |
Author | Eija Ranta |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 191 |
Release | 2018-03-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1351719343 |
Presenting an ethnographic account of the emergence and application of critical political alternatives in the Global South, this book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies. Alternative development paradigms that represent values including justice, pluralism, democracy and a sustainable relationship to nature tend to emerge in response to – and often opposed to – the neoliberal globalization. Through a focus on the empirical case of the notion of Vivir Bien (‘Living Well’) as a critical cultural and ecological paradigm, Ranta demonstrates how indigeneity – indigenous peoples’ discourses, cultural ideas and worldviews – has become such a denominator in the construction of local political and policy alternatives. More widely, the author seeks to map conditions for, and the challenges of, radical political projects that aim to counteract neoliberal globalization and Western hegemony in defining development. This book will appeal to critical academic scholars, development practitioners and social activists aiming to come to grips with the complexity of processes of progressive social change in our contemporary global world.
Neo-extractivism in Latin America
Title | Neo-extractivism in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Maristella Svampa |
Publisher | |
Pages | 73 |
Release | 2019-10-17 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108707122 |
This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of extractive violence. It also presents horizontal concepts and debates theories that explore the language of Latin American socio-environmental movements, such as Buen Vivir and Derechos de la Naturaleza. In concluding, it proposes an explanation for the end of the progressive era, analyzing its ambiguities and limitations in the dawn of a new political cycle marked by the strengthening of the political rights.
Critical Development Studies
Title | Critical Development Studies PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Veltmeyer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 140 |
Release | 2018-09-15 |
Genre | Development economics |
ISBN | 9781788530040 |
This book provides an overview of the key issues of development studies from a critical perspective: the nature of the global capitalist system and the dynamics associated with the development process, the outmigration and urbanization of rural areas, the formation of a global working class and the emergence of powerful resistance movements.
Educational Alternatives in Latin America
Title | Educational Alternatives in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Aman |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 233 |
Release | 2019-04-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 3319534505 |
This book explores diverse contemporary paradigms of educational praxis and learning in Latin America, both formal and non-formal. Each contributor offers a unique perspective on the factors which lead to the production of paradigms rooted in ‘other’ logics, cosmologies, and realities, and how these factors may renegotiate and redefine concepts of education, learning, and knowledge. The various chapters provide a road map for scholars, activists, artists, students, organizations, and social movements to help begin to construct learning spaces that seek to engage with a new more horizontal form of participatory democracy.
Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development
Title | Buen Vivir as an Alternative to Sustainable Development PDF eBook |
Author | Natasha Chassagne |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023-05-31 |
Genre | Economic development |
ISBN | 9780367636302 |
Until recently, the concept of Buen Vivir has only been loosely articulated by practising communities and in progressive policy in countries like Ecuador. What it actually means has been unclear, and in the case of policy, contradictory. As such there has been a lack of understanding about exactly what Buen Vivir entails, its core principles and how to put it into practice. This book, based on extensive theoretical and field research of Buen Vivir as an alternative to sustainable development, fills that gap and offers a concrete way forward. It uses an ethnographic study in Cotacachi County, in Ecuador's highland communities, to explore how communities understand and practice Buen Vivir. Combining this with what we already know about the concept theoretically, the book then develops a framework for Buen Vivir with 17 principles for practice. Exploring Buen Vivir's evolution from its indigenous origins, academic interpretations, and implications for development policy, to its role in endogenous, community-led change, this book will be of interest to policy-makers and development professionals. It will also be of great value to activists, students, and scholars of sustainability and development seeking grassroots social and environmental change.