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Ecuador's "Good Living": Crises, Discourse and Law

Ecuador's "Good Living": Crises, Discourse and Law

Paperback

Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesIndigenous Studies

ISBN10: 1642596175
ISBN13: 9781642596175
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: Dec 7 2021
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

In Ecuador's Good Living Crises, Discourse, and Law scholar and Ecuadoran official Carlos E. Gallegos Anda presents a critical appraisal of the concept of Buen Vivir--or sumak kawsay by its indigenous name. Buen Vivir was enshrined in Ecuador's 2008 Constitution and purports to map out a community-centric and ecologically sound path for development. Due to its apparent legal novelty, this normative formula received much praise from multiple civil society and academic circles by forging what some argued to be a new development paradigm based on Andean epistemologies. Gallegos Anda theorizes this important phenomenon through an inductive analysis of context and power relations. Through a masterful navigation of epistemological fields, the author offers a critical theory of Buen Vivir that focuses on changing citizenship regimes, a retreating state, politicised ethnic cleavages, discursive democracy, and the emergence of an empty signifier.

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