Putting Buen Vivir to practice in the Ecuadorian Andes, or how to interact with...
Channel: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra
Date: 13/07/2021

Title: "Putting Buen Vivir to practice in the Ecuadorian Andes, or how to interact with modernity in dialectic and self-determined ways"

In her book Re-inhabiting the territory: plurinacionality, interculturality and sumak kawsay in the first indigenous municipality of Cayambe (2021), Miriam Lang delves into the territorial implementation of Buen Vivir/Sumak Kawsay in the indigenous municipality of Cayambe. Her keynote talk focused on how this experience constitutes a pluriversal alternative to capitalist modernity, where cooperation, communitarianism and collectivization practices are fostered, aiming at - at least partly - dismantling the dominant systems of oppression.