Essays about: "Buen Vivir"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 12 essays containing the words Buen Vivir.

1. 6. Activist resistance against mega-projects in Yucatan : a Buen Vivir and Degrowth approach

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/Humanekologi

   Author : Francisco Javier Montaño Cruz; [2020]
   Keywords : Yucatán; Mega-projects; Development; Buen Vivir; Degrowth; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : This thesis looks at the activist resistance in Yucatán from the perspective of theories of Buen Vivir and Degrowth. Based on a critique of mega-projects, economic growth and development, as well as a theoretical explanation of resistance in the Global South and its links to Buen Vivir and Degrowth, this research explores how mega-projects in Yucatán have existed since the age of henequen, during the middle of the 19th century. READ MORE

3. 7. Sumak Kawsay and Clashing Ontologies in theEcuadorian Struggle towards De-coloniality : Progressive mobilization, romanticized constitutional reforms and local conceptions of Sumak Kawsay / Alli Kawsay in Ecuador

   University essay from Södertörns högskola/Institutionen för naturvetenskap, miljö och teknik

   Author : Joel Bengtsson; [2019]
   Keywords : Indigenous peoples; Ecuador; Sumak Kawsay; Buen-Vivir; De-coloniality; Territoriality.;

   Abstract : This thesis analyzes and problematizes the challenges and dilemmas associated with the implementation in practice of the indigenous conceptualization Sumak Kawsay/Buen-Vivir that originally is a conceptualization of a lifestyle in indigenous communities in Ecuador. The concepts were included in the new Constitution of Ecuador in 2008 that was ratified during progressive constitutional reforms under the former president Rafael Correa and with the support of the indigenous movement. READ MORE

4. 8. Political tourism? : A critical social analysis on ecotourism and the indigenous struggle in the Ecuadorian Amazons

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Romanska och klassiska institutionen

   Author : Miriam Bette; [2019]
   Keywords : Indigenous; Ecotourism; Postcolonial debate; Ecuador; Amazons; Social structures; Cultural survival; Sustainable development;

   Abstract : Enabled by a Minor Field Study scholarship from SIDA, this thesis examines indigenous involvement in ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazons. Indigenous people are the most marginalized social group world-wide, and coincidingly often live in resource rich pristine land. READ MORE

5. 9. Complementary Coexistence. A Constructivist Grounded Theory Study Exploring the Conceptualization of Health in The Philosophy of Buen Vivir / Sumak Kawsay

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Socialmedicin och global hälsa

   Author : Maria Hammarling; [2017]
   Keywords : Intergenerational; Intercultural; Complementary Coexistence; Community; Grounded Theory; Public Health; Sumak Kawsay; Buen Vivir; Indigenous; Nature; Good Living; Well Living; Wellbeing; Medicine and Health Sciences;

   Abstract : Background: The Andean indigenous philosophy known as Buen Vivir or Sumak Kawsay, loosely translated into Good Living or Well Living, is rarely studied within the field of public health. The studied philosophy has been institutionalized in Bolivian and Ecuadorian constitutions, why it sets the agenda for health in the Andean region. READ MORE

6. 10. Guardians of Life: Making Sense of Gender Equality and Women´s Activism Within Ecuador´s Indigenous Movement

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi; Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management

   Author : Shabnam Sharifpour; [2016]
   Keywords : Indigenous feminism; CONAIE; Indigenous movement; Ecuador; Gender equality; Women´s activism; Dual complementarity; Buen vivir; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Much attention has been paid to Indigenous gender ideologies and Indigenous women´s political participation in Latin America. The construction of gender equality and its implications for Indigenous women’s activism in Ecuador´s Indigenous movement is, however, widely undiscovered terrain. READ MORE