Buen vivir: Emergent discourse within or beyond sustainable development?
Buen vivir: Emergent discourse within or beyond sustainable development?
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Buen vivir:可持续发展内部或外部的新兴话语?
DOI:
10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.02.017
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
7
通讯作者:
Adrian E. Beling
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作者:
Julien Vanhulst;Adrian E. Beling
This paper sets out to review the content ofBuen 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. First, we briefly revisit criticisms to the development discourse and then engage in deeper exploration of the status of its direct descendant: sustainable development (SD). Next, we consider the Latin-American position in the discursive field of SD and the situation ofBuen vivir vis-à-visSD. Drawing on the traditional repository of the continent's indigenous cultures, this discourse has been theorized in the academic sphere and translated into normative principles that have started to permeate the public, but also the political sphere, especially in Ecuador and Bolivia. In this article we refer toBuen viviras the contemporary discursive reelaboration of the Quechua conceptSumak Kawsayand similar principles from other indigenous peoples. It includes both the idea of interdependence between society and nature and a conception of the universal as a plurality. Lastly, we outline some inbuilt tensions of theBuen vivirdiscourse, but also its dialogic potential with several variants of the heterogeneous discursive field around the idea of SD.