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 The Impact of Education on Economic Growth: The Case of India

2018 ◽  
Vol 66 (1) ◽  
pp. 253-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Kobzev Kotásková ◽  
Petr Procházka ◽  
Luboš Smutka ◽  
Mansoor Maitah ◽  
Elena Kuzmenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Education And Economic Growth

There exists an enormous interest in clarification of the relationship between education and economic growth. Over the past 30 years, there have been conducted studies by economists about the connection between education and economic growth. There are actually many publications which provide strong evidence that suggests a correlation between the two. This paper attempts to build upon previous publications and to introduce a unique insight along with contemporary evidence about the relationship between education and economic growth in India from 1975 to 2016 by foc using on primary, secondary and tertiary levels of education. The relationships are examined by utilization of econometric estimations with the Granger Causality Method and the Cointegration Method. These methods are used to create models that could shed light on the claim that education plays a central and significant role in economic growth of India which could consequently be used as an example for similar countries in Asia or around the world. The findings of this work show that there is compelling evidence proving a positive connection between education levels and economic growth in India which might influence governmental actions and shape the future of India.

Challenges for the Implementation of the Rights of Nature: Ecuador and Bolivia as the First Instances of an Expanding Movement

2021 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2110048
Author(s):  
María Valeria Berros
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Indigenous Worldviews ◽  
The World ◽  
Rights Of Nature ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Mother Earth

The recognition of the rights of nature is currently being debated in the juridical, sociological, and ethical fields. In Ecuador and Bolivia the recognition of the rights of Pachamama (Mother Earth) began in the context of constitutional and legal amendments more than a decade ago. This process was articulated with proposals presented as alternatives to global capitalism related to the indigenous worldviews known as buen vivir or vivir bien. An exploration of these processes identifies a number of challenges to socio-legal research and points to the increasing acknowledgment of the rights of nature in various countries in Latin America and other parts of the world. Actualmente se debate el reconocimiento de los derechos de la naturaleza en los ámbitos jurídico, sociológico y ético. En Ecuador y Bolivia el reconocimiento de los derechos de la Pachamama (Madre Tierra) comenzó en el contexto de las enmiendas constitucionales y legales hace más de una década. Este proceso se articuló con propuestas presentadas como alternativas al capitalismo global y relacionadas con las cosmovisiones indígenas conocidas como buen vivir o vivir bien. Una exploración de estos procesos identifica una serie de desafíos a la investigación socio-legal y apunta al creciente reconocimiento de los derechos de la naturaleza en varios países de América Latina, así como otras partes del mundo.

scholarly journals Religious Tourism and Sufism in Morocco

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Driss Bouyahya
Keyword(s):  
People’S Daily ◽  
Religious Tourism ◽  
The World ◽  
People's Daily ◽  
Religious Reasons ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Different Parts

This study aims to uncover the relationship between Sufism and religious tourism. In other words, it attempts to shed light on the standards that make people, from different parts of the world, travel in precise times for religious reasons. In addition, this study tries to highlight the effects of that kind of travels on people’s daily demeanours. Thus, this study was conducted in Fez city, Morocco, at zawya of Sidi Ahmed Tijani. The relevant data was collected qualitatively and quantitatively. The results showed that tourists who come to the zawya of Sidi Ahmed Tijani are practitioners of religious tourism since they travel from their homelands to Morocco, more precisely in Fez in order to fulfil their religious needs. Also it is shown that Tijani tourists experience a sort of cathartic process during their visits.

scholarly journals De la Universidad a la Pluriversidad Alternativas educativas en América Latina para otros “desarrollos” / From University to Pluriversity: Educational alternatives in Latin America for other "developments"

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
François-Xavier Tinel ◽  
Doris Herrera Monsalve ◽  
Bernardo Hernández Umaña ◽  
Elssy Moreno Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Knowledge Construction ◽  
Educación Superior ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Educacion Superior ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Educational Alternatives ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Living ◽  
America Latina

ABSTRACT This paper analyzes different experiences and perspectives of higher education in Latin America who have incorporated the notions of interculturality and Good Living in their curricular strategies, as an alternative to the hegemonic models of development and linked to community exercises, more diverse and inclusive. In this region, these educational proposals embody different modalities of knowledge construction and aim to erect another educational and learning model of education; therefore, they represent essential means to facilitate required transitions towards other conceptions of the world and relationships between humans and nature. RESUMENEl cambio climático, las crisis sistémicas de una economía que incrementa las desigualdades en vez de reducirlas, y el éxodo anual de millones de personas de su tierra por el hambre o la guerra, son algunas de las patologías de un modelo de civilización en crisis. Frente a la velocidad de los cambios, las universidades son entidades esenciales en la sociedad para facilitar las transiciones requeridas hacia otras concepciones del mundo y de las relaciones entre el ser humano y la naturaleza. Empero, al reconocerse a sí misma como la fuente monopolística del conocimiento y de la verdad, se ha adjudicado también a esta institución casi milenaria parte de la responsabilidad en esta crisis. En América Latina, desde hace más de una década, están surgiendo otras propuestas educativas como las de las Universidades interculturales,  la Universidad de la Tierra, o aún  de universidades que se reivindican del o para el buen vivir como instituciones de educación superior que están haciendo eco a apuestas distintas de construcción de conocimiento y pretenden ofrecer otro modelo educativo de enseñanza y aprendizaje, más diverso e inclusivo; así, este trabajo analiza las diversas experiencias y perspectivas de Educación Superior en la Universidad del Siglo XXI en América latina que han incorporado las nociones de interculturalidad y Buen Vivir en sus diferentes estrategias ó apuestas curriculares como alternativas a los modelos hegemónicos y con un vínculo particular con los ejercicios comunitarios. Por ello esta investigación reflexiona alrededor de los siguientes interrogantes: ¿De qué manera la educación para el desarrollo promueve y acompaña esos otros desarrollos o alternativas al desarrollo en Latinoamérica? y ¿Qué tan alternativas y vinculantes son estas otras apuestas de educación superior hoy en el mundo?

“The Very Place of Apparition”: Derrida on Husserl’s Concept of Noema

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-232
Author(s):  
Pietro Terzi
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
The Other ◽  
Real Component ◽  
Fundamental Condition ◽  
The World ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The One ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

Abstract In Specters of Marx, Derrida suggests that the most fundamental condition of phenomenality lies in the ambiguous status of the noema, defined as an intentional and non-real component of Erlebnis, neither “in” the world nor “in” consciousness. This “irreality” of the noematic correlate is conceived by Derrida as the origin of sense and experience. Already in his Of Grammatology, Derrida maintained that the difference between the appearing and the appearance, between the world and the lived experience, is the condition of all other differences. Unfortunately, Derrida limits himself to a few self-evident remarks, without further elaborating. The aim of this paper is twofold: on the one hand, to contextualize Derrida’s interpretation of the noema from a theoretical and historical perspective; on the other hand, to show its effects on the early moments of Derrida’s philosophy. The result will shed light on a neglected issue in the relationship between deconstruction and phenomenology.

Buen vivir (Good Living): A “Glocal” Genealogy of a Latin American Utopia for the World

2021 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2110092
Author(s):  
Adrián E. Beling ◽  
Ana Patricia Cubillo-Guevara ◽  
Julien Vanhulst ◽  
Antonio Luis Hidalgo-Capitán
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Turn Of The Century ◽  
Development Model ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
The World ◽  
Good Living ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Multiple Actors

Buen vivir (good living) discourse emerged at the turn of the century in the context of global political contestation around the prevailing development model at the intersection of multiple actors, discourses, and struggles. A genealogical reconstruction of this discourse disputes the ethnocentric character often attributed to it outside Latin America as an allegedly indigenous discursive product. Instead, buen vivir is a prime example of “glocal” discursive articulation in pursuit of alter- and postdevelopmentalist utopias—a cultural-political experiment that holds valuable lessons for global debates around alternative socio-ecological futures. El discurso del “buen vivir” surgió a principios de siglo en el contexto de la contienda política global en torno al modelo de desarrollo prevaleciente en la intersección de múltiples actores, discursos y luchas. Una reconstrucción genealógica de dicho discurso cuestiona el carácter etnocéntrico que a menudo se le atribuye fuera de América Latina, donde se le mira como un producto discursivo supuestamente indígena. Sin embargo, el buen vivir es un excelente ejemplo de articulación discursiva “glocal” en busca de utopías alter-y postdesarrollistas, un experimento cultural-político que puede brindar valiosas lecciones a los debates globales en torno a futuros socioecológicos alternativos.

Singing the World in a New Key

Janus Head ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 273-283
Author(s):  
Ted Toadvine ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Organic Life ◽  
The World ◽  
Natural Sense ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

To what extent can meaning be attributed to nature, and what is the relationship between such “natural sense” and the meaning of linguistic and artistic expressions? To shed light on such questions, this essay lays the groundwork for an “ontology of sense” drawing on the insights of phenomenology and Merleau-Ponty’s theory of expression. We argue that the ontological continuity of organic life with the perceived world of nature requires situating sense at a level that is more fundamental than has traditionally been recognized. Accounting for the genesis of this primordial sense and the teleology of expressive forms requires the development of an ontology of being as interrogation, as suggested by Merleau-Ponty’s later investigations.

scholarly journals Perspectivas paisajísticas | Landscape perspectives

ZARCH ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miriam García García
Keyword(s):  
Iterative Process ◽  
Creative Potential ◽  
Landscape Art ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Construct ◽  
Art Philosophy ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Sobre Todo

El concepto de paisaje es, sobre todo, una construcción cultural que recoge la relación del hombre con su entorno y en la que se integran compresión y construcción del medio en un proceso iterativo. De este modo, el paisaje es al mismo tiempo constructo y construcción, puesto que implica una “lectura” y una “escritura” no solo comprensivas, sino creativas del lugar. La complejidad y el dilatado alcance del concepto de paisaje dan lugar a que en torno a él se aglutinen un amplio abanico de perspectivas, como las formuladas desde la ecología por Leopold, Carson o McHarg, o aquellas que, como las de Long y Smithson, provienen del mundo del arte. Y entre ambas, otras muchas de diferentes disciplinas como la arquitectura, la planificación o el diseño. Todas estas miradas surgen de nuevos marcos conceptuales ya enunciados por Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Baudrillard, Delueze y Guattari y de su relación con pensamientos científicos, como los desarrollados por Lovelock, Prigogine o Holling, entre otros. La convocatoria de este número de la revista Zarch es una invitación a compartir algunas de estas perspectivas que abrazan esta renovada concepción de paisaje. Arte, filosofía, ecología, arquitectura, planificación, ninguna disciplina queda hoy, en la era del Antropoceno, fuera de la agenda del paisaje. Una agenda que nos convocan a recuperar la riqueza que aportan las diferentes perspectivas paisajísticas, apelando a la dimensión formal, social, cultural y ecológica del concepto y a su potencialidad creativa. The concept of landscape is, above all, a cultural construct which includes the relationship between mankind and his setting, and it is a concept into which understanding and construction of the environment is incorporated by means of an iterative process. Thus, landscape is both construct and construction, given that it involves “reading” and “writing” about the place that are both comprehensive and creative. The complexity and extensive scope of the concept of landscape gives rise to a wide range of perspectives with regard to its nature, such as those formulated from the viewpoint of ecology by Leopold, Carson and McHarg, and those by Long and Smithson, which originate in the world of art. And between both of these lie many more coming from disciplines such as architecture, planning and design. All of these viewpoints arise from new conceptual frameworks already put forward by Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, Foucault, Baudrillard, Delueze and Guattari, and from their relationship with scientific thought, such as those developed by Lovelock, Prigogine and Holling, among others.The call for papers for this issue of Zarch is an invitation to share some of the perspectives that embrace this renewed concept of landscape. Art, philosophy, ecology, architecture, planning – there are no longer any disciplines, in this the Anthropocene epoch, that are not included in the agenda of landscape. It is an agenda that calls on us to recover the wealth brought about by different landscape perspectives, one that appeals to the formal, social, cultural and ecological dimensions of the concept and to its creative potential.

The Satisfaction-Loyalty Relationship in Marketing: A Critical Review and Future Research

2016 ◽  
pp. 92-116
Author(s):  
Tuu Ho Huy ◽  
Olsen Svein Ottar
Keyword(s):  
Critical Review ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Complex Nature ◽  
Combined Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Functional Forms ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Shed Light

The purpose of this study is to critically review and to recommend future research for the satisfaction-loyalty relationship (SLR) in marketing. The paper is based on over 75 papers published by top peer reviewed journals in marketing throughout the world over the past three decades. The results show that the SLR is suggested to be positive. However, this relationship could be linear or nonlinear depending on the nature, the different approaches of measure and definition of satisfaction and loyalty. Moreover, the relationship is affected by many moderators, mediators and other variables. Future research should extend to test other antecedents besides satisfaction and to use different definitional approaches of satisfaction and loyalty to explain loyalty. Different functional forms of the SLR, moderators and mediators are also recommended to test in a separate or combined approach to shed light on the complex nature of this relationship.

scholarly journals Shaping compact cities for liveability, affordability and sustainability

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felicia Atmadja ◽  
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Dushko Bogunovich ◽  
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◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Transit Oriented Development ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Spatial Form ◽  
Urban Context ◽  
Compact City ◽  
High Rise ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
The World

Rapid urban population and territorial growth is becoming a general trend across the world, driving planning policies to promote a more compact city. As an alternative to sprawling patterns of urban development, the compact city emerges as a spatial form characterized by three key elements: densification, connectivity and accessibility. All three are articulated by transit-oriented development (TOD) strategies in today’s urban context. TOD aims to encourage densification, mixed land uses, walkability and public transportation, as well as vertical housing typologies. There are now many examples around the world in which TOD has influenced the verticalization of the city, and we can expect further translations into other contexts. Auckland and Jakarta have too chosen the TOD strategy, incorporating vertical housing, to slow down the sprawl. But citizens are concerned about the quality of life in high-rise, higher density housing, as well as its price. We make a comparative assessment of TOD’s ability to achieve liveability, sustainability and affordability in two cities – Jakarta and Auckland – while using Singapore as a benchmark for both. Two case studies have shown that some of the residents’ complaints are justified. In the conclusion of the study we suggest improvements in planning and design strategies and produce further recommendations for an effective city transformation.

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