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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| 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. |
| 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). |
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