GOOD LIVING IN ECUADOR AND COLOMBIA

This book is divided into two parts, one for Ecuador and one for Bolivia. The first part consists of two chapters: one focuses on the political proposal for Buen Vivir (Good Living) and the other on the discursive transformations surrounding Buen Vivir (Good Living). The second part, also consisting of two chapters, addresses the entire emergence of the process of institutional political change for Vivir Bien (Good Living). Secondly, it emphasizes the complementarity of opposites, including the third, and relationality, articulating the Western perspective with the Amerindian perspective, based on the paradigm of complex thought. The contribution resulting from this research allows us to consider other ways of generating and reproducing knowledge between two places, based on concrete and diverse understandings with which points of agreement and disagreement were identified, with the firm purpose of ensuring that the knowledge and practices that inspire Buen Vivir / Vivir Bien can contribute, on the one hand, to the generation of intercultural dialogue between the West and the Amerindian world; and second, it contributes to rethinking the construction of diverse scenarios to vindicate and make visible those who have been ignored in the construction of the State and public policies, which allows us to come together to make proposals from new epistemological frameworks that attempt to consolidate complex thinking.