Six Open Debates on Sumak Kawsay

This essay seeks to shed light on six open debates about sumak kawsay: Its meaning, translation, origin, cultural referent, relation with development, and direction. Such debates are analyzed from the premise that the authors who participate in them do so from different cultural paradigms (Andean wo...

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Authors: Hidalgo-Capitán, Antonio Luis, Cubillo-Guevara, Ana Patricia
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2014
Country:Ecuador
Institution:Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
Repository:Revista ICONOS
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec:article/1204
Online Access:https://iconos.flacsoandes.edu.ec/index.php/iconos/article/view/1204
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Sumak kawsay
Buen vivir
Desarrollo
Post-desarrollo
Modernismo
Post-modernismo
Indigenismo
Socialismo
Ecologismo
Development
Post-development
Modernism
Post-modernism
Indigenism
Socialism
Ecologism.
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Summary:This essay seeks to shed light on six open debates about sumak kawsay: Its meaning, translation, origin, cultural referent, relation with development, and direction. Such debates are analyzed from the premise that the authors who participate in them do so from different cultural paradigms (Andean worldview, modernism, or post-modernism) and from different schools of thought (socialist and statist, indigenist and “pachamamista”, or ecologist and post-developmentalist).