Consultation in Ecuador: Institutional Fragility and Participation in National Extractive Policy

2021 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2110081
Author(s):  
Diana Vela-Almeida ◽  
Nataly Torres
Keyword(s):  
Territorial Defense ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Effective Compliance

An analysis of five lawsuits against the infringement of the rights to participation illustrates that effective compliance with free prior and informed consultation and popular consultation on extractive projects in Ecuador is compromised by state institutional fragility. While suits on the rights to participation have served as strategies to halt extractive projects that lack prior consultation, extractive activities continue to present great risks to territorial defense and the good-living agenda. Un análisis de cinco demandas contra la violación del derecho a la participación ilustra que el cumplimiento efectivo de la consulta previa, libre e informada y la consulta popular sobre proyectos extractivos en Ecuador se ha visto comprometido por la fragilidad institucional del Estado. Si bien las demandas en torno a los derechos de participación han servido como estrategias para detener los proyectos extractivos que carecen de consulta previa, las actividades extractivas siguen presentando grandes riesgos para la defensa territorial y la agenda del buen vivir.

scholarly journals The materialization of the Buen Vivir and the Rights of Nature: Rhetoric and Realities of Guayaquil Ecológico urban regeneration project

2022 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
María Fernanda Ordóñez ◽  
Kelly Shannon ◽  
Viviana d’Auria
Keyword(s):  
Ecological Context ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The World ◽  
Rights Of Nature ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Natural Dynamics ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

AbstractIn 2008, Ecuador became the first country in the world to declare nature as a subject of rights based on the ‘Buen Vivir’ (Good Living) philosophy which is premised on an indigenous principle that envisions a world where humans are part-and-parcel of a larger natural and social environment. Although Ecuador’s constitution is groundbreaking from a legal standpoint, the question arises of how the rights of nature is spatially manifested beyond the designation of protected areas? To shed light on such interrogation, this article, based on qualitative research, focuses on the linear park component of the mega-project Guayaquil Ecológico heralded as a first materialization which champions the “Rights of Nature” under the vision of the Buen Vivir. It unravels the contested rhetoric and realities of the Guayaquil Ecológico linear park in a critical review of the as-built project in relation to the larger objectives of Buen Vivir. The Guayaquil Ecologico linear park promised to simultaneously upgrade both social and environmental dimensions. However, it did not fully address the complexity of Guayaquil’s socio-ecological context and some of the structural injustices of the estuarine territory. Buen Vivir was rhetorically mobilised to implement a project where aesthetic dimensions dominated, further perpetuating socio-ecological vulnerabilities through relocation and evictions. Furthermore, its implementation was dependent on a specific political moment, leaving it in a state of abandonment and neglect. The Buen Vivir philosophy—as a decolonial stance that challenges western forms of development—can offer a fundamental base to question current modes of territorial occupation based on extractivist planning and design strategies. It holds significant potential to serve as base to re-think the relationship between forms of settlement, natural dynamics, and worldviews.

scholarly journals Los caminos del buen vivir

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 45-64
Author(s):  
Wilson Martínez Guaca ◽  
Dianny Guerrero Montilla
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Present Article ◽  
World System ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Capitalist World ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Maximum Expression

El presente artículo sobre el buen vivir, que se ha convertido en un paradigma de los pueblos originarios que ofrece una salida al desarrollismo racional, hace un recorrido por la visión general del concepto, se detiene en las concepciones indígenas de Bolivia con énfasis en los aymara y los quechuas, de Ecuador con el pueblo kichwa y los pueblos amazónicos, de Paraguay con el pueblo guaraní y de Colombia con el pueblo nasa.  Abstract The present article about Buen vivir (good living), which has become a paradigm of the original people as a way out of rational developmentalism, takes a tour through the general vision of the concept, stopping in the indigenous conceptions of Bolivia with the Aymara and the Quechuas, from Ecuador with the Kichwa and the Amazonian people, from Paraguay with the Guaraní people and from Colombia with the Nasa people. It afterwards extends in postures such as those of the pluriverse and the cosmo-community, and in general of the anti-systemic and ecological social movements, to arrive at an approach from political culture found in Ecuador and Bolivia constitutions to its maximum expression, and in several studies that propose it as the exit to visions of development, progress and the capitalist world system, as well as a different political option to capitalism and socialism.

scholarly journals APRENDER A APRENDER… (LEARN TO LEARN)

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Flor Abarca-Alpízar
Keyword(s):  
Meaningful Learning ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Shared Learning ◽  
Great Responsibility ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Good Living ◽  
The University

En nuestras búsquedas para la promoción de los aprendizajes universitarios con sentido y significado para las y los estudiantes universitario, tenemos la inmensa responsabilidad de conservar aquello que nos humaniza, siendo flexibles ante nuestras dependencias, obediencias, desconfianzas e inseguridades por lo nuevo; sintiéndonos parte de lo observado, asumiendo con amor y gozo nuestras responsabilidades: los interaprendizajes entre seres humanos.Los aprendizajes con sentido son parte de la integralidad de la vida, de nuestro autoconocimiento e inteligencia espiritual, necesitamos reconocerlos como parte del  flujo universal de la vida y aplicarlos en nuestro quehacer cotidiano como académicos y académicas universitarios.  Los aprendizajes y la vida son la misma cosa, porque necesitamos de los aprendizajes para vivir, para cuidarnos como seres vivos en conexión con Gaia, nuestra Madre Tierra.Palabras clave: Aprendizajes con sentido, Mediación Pedagógica, Integralidad, Buen vivir, Transdisciplinariedad.Abstract In our search for the promotion of the university learning with meaning and significance to the university and students, have the great responsibility to preserve what makes us human, being flexible about our facilities, obedience, mistrust and insecurity for the new, feeling part of noted, with love and joy assuming our responsibilities: the shared learning among humans. Meaningful learning are part of the wholeness of life, our self-knowledge and spiritual understanding, we need to recognize them as part of the universal flow of life and apply them in our daily lives as scholars and university academics. Learning and life are the same thing, because we need to live learning to take care of as living in connection with Gaia, our Mother Earth.Keywords: Learning with respect Pedagogical Mediation, Integrity Good living, Transdisciplinariedad

The Tools of Institutional Change under Post-Neoliberalism: Rafael Correa's Ecuador

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 379-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francisco Sánchez ◽  
John Polga-Hecimovich
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
The State ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
State Planning ◽  
The Public ◽  
Constituent Assembly ◽  
Planning Agency ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Do So

AbstractHow have governments in Latin America been able to counteract two decades of neoliberalism and pursue post-neoliberal developmental reforms, and what tools have they used to do so? We argue that post-neoliberal projects are possible through the use of three necessary conditions in a context of economic bonanza: (1) extensive use of the legal-constitutional framework to facilitate interventionism; (2) an increase in the centrality of public planning agencies to design those policies; and (3) growth of the bureaucracy to implement the policies. Through a case study of Rafael Correa's Ecuador, we show how a constituent assembly, empowerment of the state planning agency, and an increase in the size of the public administration allowed the president to combat neoliberalism and pursue his ambitiousBuen Vivir(Good Living) plan. This simple framework offers important clues for understanding post-liberalism and the return of the state in Ecuador and beyond.

Governance and Territorial Development in Ecuador: The Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir in Zaruma, Piñas and Portovelo

2016 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ PRADA-TRIGO
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Local Administration ◽  
Territorial Development ◽  
National Plan ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Real Change ◽  
Good Living ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

AbstractThis article analyses the impact at a local level of the changes that have been introduced within the framework of the Plan Nacional del Buen Vivir (National Plan for Good Living, PNBV) in Ecuador since 2007. It assesses the extent to which there has been real change in local administration and governance and, if so, the impact in areas such as economic development, innovation and quality of life. Fieldwork was carried out across three towns and cantons – Zaruma, Piñas and Portovelo – in the province of El Oro. Historically, these have been characterised by their dependence on the primary export model that the government of Rafael Correa has sought to move beyond. The progress and limitations of this process are assessed within the context of the National Plan for Good Living.

scholarly journals PERSPECTIVAS SOBRE EL BUEN VIVIR EN UN MUNICIPIO TSOTSIL DE LOS ALTOS DE CHIAPAS

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (19) ◽  
pp. 142
Author(s):  
Paola Ortelli ◽  
Marcos Gómez López
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
El Sistema ◽  
Good Living ◽  
San Andres

En este artículo se exponen los resultados de la investigación enmarcada en el proyecto «Cuestionando el desarrollo: hacia prácticas de buen vivir». En este sentido, a partir del caso del municipio tsotsil de San Andrés Larráinzar, se compararán los discursos de los jóvenes y de los mayores sobre el lekil kuxlejal (buen vivir). Se enfatiza sobre la perspectiva de los mayores, quienes afirman la importancia del sistema de cargos tradicional en la continuidad de la vida del pueblo, así como su función ético-educativa para los jóvenes originarios del municipio en cuestión. Se avanzan hipótesis explicativas sobre la asociación del buen vivir con el sistema de cargos, presentando resultados preliminares de una investigación doctoral en proceso. PERSPECTIVES REGARDING GOOD LIVING IN A TSOTSIL MUNICIPALITY IN THE CHIAPAS HIGHLANDS This article presents results from a piece of research framed within a project entitled «Questioning Development: Towards Practices of Good Living». Based on the case of the tsotsil municipality of San Andrés Larráinzar, it compares the discourse of youth and the elderly regarding lekil kuxlejal (good living/buen vivir). It highlights the perspective of tsotsil elders, who reaffirm the importance of the traditional ladder of responsibilities (cargo system) for continuity of the people’s lives, as well as the ethical-educational function the elders perform for the tsotsil youth in this municipality. Presenting preliminary results from a PhD piece of research in process, it sets forth explanatory hypotheses regarding the association between good living/buen vivir and the traditional ladder of responsibilities.

scholarly journals Resistência e coexistência: da produção de mercadorias à valorização da vida

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-64
Author(s):  
Andréia Cordeiro Mecca ◽  
Miriã Martins de Brito
Keyword(s):  
Human Life ◽  
Possible World ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
History Of Capitalism ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Human Labor ◽  
History Of ◽  
Good Living ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Life On Earth

Resumo O objetivo central deste ensaio foi discutir a diferença entre uma sociedade pautada na produção de mercadorias, que nega a fruição do ócio a favor do capital, e sociedades indígenas ameríndias, que valorizam a vida humana e dos demais seres. As raízes históricas do capitalismo foram base para reflexão de como a exploração do trabalho humano tornou-se o centro da busca por acumulação de riquezas. Depois abordamos visões de sociedades indígenas ameríndias que, desde uma filosofia ancestral em sintonia com a existência e a coexistência, respeitam a outrem e a Terra. Consideramos, com base na literatura escrita por indígenas, bem como de autores/as alinhados/as a referenciais suleados, a possibilidade de outro mundo possível, especialmente observando a filosofia do Bem-Viver, que aponta para a construção coletiva e harmônica de novas formas de viver, que valorizam e respeitam a diversidade, a natureza, a vida na Terra e da Terra.Palavras-chave: Bem-Viver. Ócio. Trabalho. Resistance and coexistence: from the production of goods to the revolution of life Abstract The purpose of this essay was to discuss the difference between a society based on the production of goods, which denies the enjoyment of leisure in favor of capital, and Amerindian indigenous societies, which value human life and that of other beings. The history of capitalism is the basis for reflecting on how the exploitation of human labor results in the accumulation of wealth. Then, we approach visions of indigenous Amerindian societies whose existence and coexistence respect each other and the Earth. We consider, based on the literature written by indigenous people, as well as authors aligned with southern references, another possible world, especially observing the philosophy of Good-Living and new ways of living, which value and respect diversity, nature, life on Earth and Earth.Keywords: Good-Living. Idleness. Job. Resistencia y coexistencia: desde la producción de mercaderías hasta la valoración de la vida Resumen El objetivo principal de este ensayo fue discutir la diferencia entre una sociedad basada en la producción de mercaderías, que niega el disfrute del ocio a favor del capital, y las sociedades indígenas amerindias, que valoran la vida humana y la de otros seres. Las raíces históricas del capitalismo fueron la base para reflexionar sobre cómo la explotación del trabajo humano se convirtió en el centro de la búsqueda de la acumulación de riquezas. Después nos acercamos a visiones de sociedades indígenas amerindias que, desde una filosofía ancestral en sintonía con la existencia y la coexistencia, respetan a otren y a la Tierra. Consideramos, a partir de la literatura escrita por indígenas, así como de autores/as alineados con referenciales sureñados, la posibilidad de otro mundo posible, especialmente observando la filosofía del Buen-Vivir, que apunta a la construcción colectiva y armónica de nuevas formas de vivir, que valoran y respetan la diversidad, la naturaleza, la vida en la Tierra y en la Tierra.Palabras clave: Buen-Vivir. Ocio. Trabajo.

scholarly journals Semillas y caminos para la educación latinoamericana en tiempos de incertidumbre

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 36
Author(s):  
Carlos Crespo Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Political Transformations ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Good Living ◽  
Sumak Kawsay ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Educational Movements

En América Latina vivimos un quiebre en las tendencias de los procesos políticos y sociales de cambio que venían desenvolviéndose en la primera década y media del presente siglo. En este contexto de incertidumbre, las sociedades se encuentran en la encrucijada ante las vías posibles que se abren a la educación: ¿igualdad, inclusión o competitividad para el mercado? Este artículo pasa revista por algunas importantes resignifi caciones planteadas a la educación en las últimas décadas por diversos movimientos sociales y educativos en América Latina, en el escenario de transformaciones sociales y políticas en que algunos Estados contribuyeron a la revitalización de la educación pública como un derecho humano. Nuevas generaciones exigen la educación como derecho y no quieren más educación como lucro. Pueblos indígenas proponen otros sentidos de la educación dentro del paradigma del Buen Vivir (Sumak Kawsay) o Vivir Bien (Suma Qamaña), buscan posicionar un nuevo signifi cado de la vida, en el horizonte de una nueva espiritualidad y convivencia. Estas alternativas ofrecen señales de posibles caminos frente al oscurecimiento humano que presenciamos actualmente.Palabras clave: Sentidos de la educación. Alternativas al desarrollo. Pertinencia cultural. Sementes e estradas para a educação latino-americana em tempos de incertezaRESUMONa América Latina vivemos uma ruptura nas tendências dos processos políticos e sociais de mudança que se desdobraram na primeira década e meia deste século. Nesse contexto de incerteza, as sociedades estão na encruzilhada diante de possíveis caminhos abertos à educação: igualdade, inclusão ou competitividade para o mercado? Este artigo analisa algumas ressignificações importantes da educação nas últimas décadas por diversos movimentos sociais e educacionais da América Latina, no cenário de transformações sociais e políticas em que alguns Estados contribuíram para a revitalização da educação pública como direito humano. As novas gerações exigem educação como um direito e não querem mais educação como lucro. Os povos indígenas propõem outras formas de educação dentro do paradigma do bem viver (Sumak Kawsay) ou segundo Living Well (Suma Qamaña) buscar um novo sentido da vida, no horizonte de uma nova espiritualidade e convívio. Essas alternativas oferecem sinais de possíveis caminhos contrários ao obscurecimento humano que estamos testemunhando atualmente.Palavras-chave: Sentidos da educação. Alternativas ao desenvolvimento. Relevância cultural. Seeds and roads for Latin American education in times of uncertaintyABSTRACTIn Latin America we have lived a break in the trends of the political and social processes of change that had been unfolding in the fi rst decade and a half of this century. In this context of uncertainty, societies are at the crossroads before the possible paths open to education: equality, inclusion or competitiveness for the market? This article reviews some important resignifi cations of education in recent decades by various social and educational movements in Latin America, in the scenario of social and political transformations where some States contributed to the revitalization of public education as a human right. New generations demand education as a right, they do not want more education as a profi t. Indigenous peoples propose other meanings of education within the paradigm of Good Living (Sumak Kawsay) or Living Well (Suma Qamaña), seeking to position a new meaning of life, on the horizon of a new spirituality and coexistence. These alternatives off er signs of possible paths against the human obscuration that we are witnessing today.Keywords: Senses of education. Alternatives to development. Cultural relevance.

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