El Sumak Kawsay no Equador: Alternativa para ou ao desenvolvimento?

Um relato etnográfico da mentalidade Buen Vivir como movimento de resistência

Abstract

This paper is an ethnographic description of Sumak Kawsay in a social context (and also his perspectives or mentalities), here considered as "Sociedad del Buen Vivir" – “Good Living society” in Ecuador. This article questions whether the native mentality of the Andean indigenous peoples of this country could be considered as a "resistance movement" and, therefore, an alternative to development, or an alternative to development, reconciling, in this case, the Development ideas local and global The "conventional development" that has guided Western societies is supposed to have been strongly marked by crises. It is necessary to review, for example, the political organization of the communities, as well as the levels of production and consumption. It is divided into two parts: in the first part, the objects (and places) of the research are presented together with the theoretical (and critical) foundations of "conventional" development, which raises questions about alternatives; In the second part of the study, a report is made, with an "ethnographic vision" of the Good Living mentality, as well as an analysis of the elements presented in the field work that could conceptualize such social context as an alternative to development and as a "resistance movement."