Doyle, Matthew;
(2024)
What does it mean to ‘live well’? The contentious politics of vivir bien as alternative development.
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
10.1111/1467-9655.14205.
(In press).
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Abstract
Vivir bien is widely used by academics, activists, and governments of the Latin American ‘Pink Tide’ to refer to alternatives to conventional economic development based on indigenous worldviews claimed to oppose capitalist modernity. Through ethnography of local politics within a Bolivian Quechua community, this article explores how the term has been vernacularized and contested among local leaders, illustrating that their understandings of development and ‘living well’ do not reflect a binary opposition between ‘Western’ and ‘indigenous’ ways of being. Debates concerning vivir bien instead express varied notions of self‐government and aspirations for autonomy informed by centuries of struggle as colonized peoples.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | What does it mean to ‘live well’? The contentious politics of vivir bien as alternative development |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1467-9655.14205 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14205 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024 The Author(s). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal Anthropological Institute. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Anthropology |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10199926 |
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