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Universidad de Costa Rica
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| author | Pedro Alarcón |
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| contents | LATIN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING REVISITED: THE POLYPHONY OF BUEN VIVIR Pedro Alarcón Historia neo nature Ecuador good living development Following the guiding thread of recent Ecuadorian economic history, this paper aims to mirror the evolution of environmental discourses across the Latin American region. During the last decades of the twentieth century, increasing social environmental awareness added up to the penetration of environmental thinking into the states’ developmental policymaking. For Ecuador, this cocktail resulted in the long-run in a particular discourse: Buen vivir. Central to rationalize buen vivir was its socioecological dimension, founded on a harmonic relationship between society and nature. Buen vivir was meant to materialize in a plan to save part of the Ecuadorian Amazonia from oil drilling by leaving a significant portion of the country’s reserves under the ground in exchange for an international monetary compensation: The Yasuní-ITT initiative. Despite the fact that the plan mobilized state and society, it succumbed to forty-years of oil dependence of Ecuadorian economy, politics, and society. The termination of the initiative unveiled two antagonist environmental discourses. Whereas the state held the notion of natural resources available for commodification in the global market, society bet on alternative meanings of nature such as natural heritage and ancient peoples’ habitat and means of existence.As outcomes of the foreseeable divorce between the environmental discourses, buen vivir turned into a polyphonic concept and the struggle over a hegemonic environmental discourse resumed. It is argued that during the twenty-first century, one of the consequences of such a struggle is the construction of different meanings of development alike. 2020 otro 1409-469X https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=43963445013 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/43963445013.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/movil https://doi.org/10.15517/dre.v21i2.39433 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=439 Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia application/pdf Universidad de Costa Rica Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia (Costa Rica) Num.2 Vol.21 |
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| language | en |
| publishDate | 2020 |
| publisher | Universidad de Costa Rica |
| spellingShingle | LATIN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING REVISITED: THE POLYPHONY OF BUEN VIVIR Pedro Alarcón Historia neo nature Ecuador good living development LATIN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING REVISITED: THE POLYPHONY OF BUEN VIVIR Pedro Alarcón Historia neo nature Ecuador good living development Following the guiding thread of recent Ecuadorian economic history, this paper aims to mirror the evolution of environmental discourses across the Latin American region. During the last decades of the twentieth century, increasing social environmental awareness added up to the penetration of environmental thinking into the states’ developmental policymaking. For Ecuador, this cocktail resulted in the long-run in a particular discourse: Buen vivir. Central to rationalize buen vivir was its socioecological dimension, founded on a harmonic relationship between society and nature. Buen vivir was meant to materialize in a plan to save part of the Ecuadorian Amazonia from oil drilling by leaving a significant portion of the country’s reserves under the ground in exchange for an international monetary compensation: The Yasuní-ITT initiative. Despite the fact that the plan mobilized state and society, it succumbed to forty-years of oil dependence of Ecuadorian economy, politics, and society. The termination of the initiative unveiled two antagonist environmental discourses. Whereas the state held the notion of natural resources available for commodification in the global market, society bet on alternative meanings of nature such as natural heritage and ancient peoples’ habitat and means of existence.As outcomes of the foreseeable divorce between the environmental discourses, buen vivir turned into a polyphonic concept and the struggle over a hegemonic environmental discourse resumed. It is argued that during the twenty-first century, one of the consequences of such a struggle is the construction of different meanings of development alike. 2020 otro 1409-469X https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=43963445013 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/43963445013.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/movil https://doi.org/10.15517/dre.v21i2.39433 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=439 Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia application/pdf Universidad de Costa Rica Diálogos Revista Electrónica de Historia (Costa Rica) Num.2 Vol.21 |
| title | LATIN AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL THINKING REVISITED: THE POLYPHONY OF BUEN VIVIR |
| topic | Historia neo nature Ecuador good living development |
| url | https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=43963445013 https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/html/ https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/43963445013.epub https://www.redalyc.org/journal/439/43963445013/movil https://doi.org/10.15517/dre.v21i2.39433 |