The institutionalized Buen Vivir: a new hegemonic political paradigm for Ecuador

Benalcázar, Jaime Patricio Carpio; Rosa, Francisco Javier Ullán de la

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“…In order to do this respectfully and transparently, we traced what Katz (2001Katz ( , p. 1229) calls the 'contour lines that represent not elevation but particular relations to a process'. In so doing, we demonstrated that buen vivir reframes and concretises the way in which social ruralities in this very different context offer up new narratives for a 'good coexistence' (Albo, 2017;Benalcázar & de la Rosa, 2021). However, our contribution to the literature on buen vivir goes beyond the geographical.…”

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“…However, our contribution to the literature on buen vivir goes beyond the geographical. Rather, in recognising their transformational and powerful role as social and political actors, we introduce (domestic) animals as a key constituency in efforts to achieve a more ‘harmonious relation between society and nature’ (Benalcázar & de la Rosa, 2021, p. 9).…”

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Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

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Notions of the good life are often strongly linked to rurality. Existing conceptualisations tend towards an anthropocentric and individualised approach centred on personal wealth, status and happiness. In contrast, this article reframes the good life as an interspecies endeavur, which embeds people and animals alike by recognising their interdependent relational configurations within the wider natural-social environment. Specifically, we bring insights from the concept of buen vivir to bear on research among people who live alongside their horses in rural areas of the UK. We find that horses enhance, enable and mediate people's understanding and experience of the rural good life. In contrast to popular and scholarly conceptions that emphasise privilege and leisure, the interspecies iteration that emerges is characterised by hard work, collaboration and purposeful active learning. This has profound implications in turn for our understanding and experience of sustainability, as these interspecies relations lead participants intoThis is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.

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Introducing the Pluriverse of the Anthropocene: Toward an Ontological Politics of Environmental Governance in Indonesia

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Kim

2023

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This chapter introduces an idea that is gaining increasing prominence in discussions of the Anthropocene: the idea of the pluriverse. We argue that the very condition of the Anthropocene can serve as an opportunity to give serious consideration to the ontological thesis of the pluriverse, namely that there are many kinds of worlds, some of which may allow for “social” relations that are constituted by “more-than-human” beings. In the first part of the chapter, we draw from the literature on the pluriverse and studies of indigenous worlds that have appeared in the past decade to elaborate on the idea of the pluriverse, highlighting, in particular, the ethical motivation that underpins calls to recognize different kinds of worlds. In the second part of the chapter, we consider the implications of the pluriverse in Indonesia, particularly in relation to “adat revivalism” and CSR practice. We suggest that an “ontological politics” toward the recognition and preservation of many kinds of worlds can be understood in Indonesia as a struggle to deepen Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity in Diversity), which the modern Indonesian state has long professed to be one of its foundational principles.

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Practising sustainability beyond growth in eco-social entrepreneurship: An international comparative case study

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Umantseva

2022

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This paper explores whether and how eco-social enterprises (ESEs) in rural areas are able to foster sustainability beyond growth in their daily practice. We approach sustainability beyond growth as a radical intertwining of social, ecological and economic concerns, where economy is understood as the secure and long-term fulfilling of basic needs within planetary limits. The study compares daily practices of five established ESEs in Brandenburg, Germany and Alentejo, Portugal. The ESEs represent the fields of agriculture and tourism and are diverse in their organisational forms and sizes. The data includes ethnography, interviews and document analysis. According to the results, ESEs support transition towards sustainability beyond growth and extractivism by facilitating slow, caring and respectful production practices that balance the needs of nature and human participants. While findings demonstrate such practices across all organisational forms and sizes, they were the most ambitious and heterogeneous in large co-operatives in less peripheral locations with more initial resources. Ethical negotiations on economic risk-sharing and decision-making were intertwined in and stabilised by market relations and hierarchical decision-making. Small and peripheral ESEs need to balance between the risk of exclusivity, precarity, complexity of diverse participation and limited resources for coordination.

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The institutionalized Buen Vivir: a new hegemonic political paradigm for Ecuador

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Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

Agents of sustainability: How horses and people co‐create, enact and embed the good life in rural places

Introducing the Pluriverse of the Anthropocene: Toward an Ontological Politics of Environmental Governance in Indonesia

Practising sustainability beyond growth in eco-social entrepreneurship: An international comparative case study

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