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Development, Citizenship, and Everyday Appropriations of Buen Vivir: Ecuadorian Engagement with the Changing Rhetoric of Improvement

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: The Ecuadorian state frames its development interventions in infrastructure and human capital as advances in buen vivir or ‘good living’. This paper reports ethnographic research that draws attention to everyday appropriations of state discourses on buen vivir in the Amazon and Andes. Non‐state actors in marginalised communities often use state discourses strategically in engagements and negotiations with state actors. We argue that uses of official versions of buen vivir discourse often reflect such strategic appropriations of state idioms, rather than subjective commitment to state‐led development and official notions of buen vivir .

Source: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

DOI: 10.17615/df14-nc73

Authors: Colloredo-Mansfeld, R., Rousseau, M., Lyall, A.

Institution: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Language: English

Topic: Latin American Cultural Politics

Subfield: Anthropology

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Science Foundation, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Wenner-Gren Foundation, Tinker Foundation, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

OpenAlex ID: W4298256645

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