Who Is Doing Well in Ecuador? Social Reforms and Buen Vivir

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (002) ◽  
pp. 179-189
Author(s):  
T. Vorotnikova
Keyword(s):  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Social Reforms

On the Prophets in the Fatherland (To P. A. Stolypin's 150th Anniversary)

2012 ◽  
pp. 152-155
Author(s):  
A. Tulokhonov
Keyword(s):  
Basic Principles ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
150Th Anniversary ◽  
Relevant Today ◽  
Contemporary Development ◽  
Political Economic

The article gives an assessment of P. A. Stolypin's political, economic and social reforms, their significance for the contemporary development of Russia, including the eastern territories. The author believes that the basic principles of the reform system proposed by Stolypin are relevant today and can become fundamental for improving the country's competitiveness.

Decrecimiento, post-desarrollo y transiciones: una conversación preliminar

2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (7) ◽  
Author(s):  
Arturo Escobar
Keyword(s):  
Buen Vivir ◽  
America Latina

<p class="p1"><span class="s2"><strong>Resumen </strong></span>| Este trabajo procura iniciar un diálogo entre los marcos de referencia del decrecimiento y el post-desarrollo, colocándolos dentro del campo más amplio de los discursos sobre las transiciones ecológica y de civilización, y procurando tender puentes entre propuestas emergentes del Norte y aquellas generadas en el Sur global<span class="s3"><strong>. </strong></span>Sostenemos que este diálogo no sólo puede ser mutuamente enriquecedor para ambos movimientos, sino también esencial para una efectiva política de transformación<span class="s3"><strong>. </strong></span>La primera parte de este trabajo presenta un panorama breve de los discursos de transición, particularmente en el Norte. La segunda parte discute de manera sucinta las principales tendencias en el post-desarrollo en América Latina, incluyendo el Buen Vivir, los derechos de la naturaleza, la crisis de la civilización, y el concepto de “alternativas <em>al </em>desarrollo”. Con estos elementos en la mano, la tercera parte intenta un diálogo preliminar entre el decrecimiento y el post-desarrollo; identifica puntos de convergencia y tensión, y termina bosquejando algunas áreas de investigación que podrían ser de particular interés para los estudiosos del decrecimiento.<strong></strong></p>

Perspectivas discursivas sobre el Buen Vivir y la matriz productiva en el Ecuador, en contraste con el desarrollo

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 22
Author(s):  
Cristina Acuña Bermeo ◽  
Efraín Naranjo Borja ◽  
Andrés Abad
Keyword(s):  
Buen Vivir

Biblia y ciudad: Pedagogía del buen vivir en contextos urbanos

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
JAIME ALBERTO MANCERA CASAS ◽  
ELEAZAR LÓPEZ HERNÁNDEZ ◽  
HERVÉ TREMBLAY ◽  
FERNANDO TORRES MILLÁN ◽  
MARY BETTY RODRÍGUEZ MORENO ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Buen Vivir

The Elite Circuit

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Kucinskas
Keyword(s):  
Social Skill ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
High Status ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Contemplative Practices ◽  
Intellectual Elites ◽  
Cultural Movement ◽  
Over Time

The mindful elite attracted new high-status sympathizers in targeted organizations by using their professional symbolic power, social status, and social skill to build legitimacy for meditation and other contemplative practices. In this chapter the author builds upon scholarship on legitimation by identifying the various kinds of legitimation the contemplatives are able to secure. These different kinds of legitimacy are interrelated and build upon each other over time, creating a cultural movement that is increasingly difficult to derail. However, in building their base among a privileged coterie of social, economic, and intellectual elites, the contemplatives risk losing touch with ordinary people and the issues of inequality that affect them. This weakens the contemplatives’ ability to stand by and implement direct social reforms to influence root causes of the issues they care about, such as rising inequality, greed, and materialism.

The Contemplative Elite and Capitalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jaime Kucinskas
Keyword(s):  
Field Theory ◽  
Social Networks ◽  
Social Movement ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Social Reform ◽  
Symbolic Power ◽  
Institutional Entrepreneurship ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Cultural Diffusion ◽  
Movement Mobilization

This chapter introduces the contemplative mindfulness movement, its successes in legitimizing and popularizing mindful meditation, and its shortcomings. This case demonstrates how elite movements can initiate widespread cultural change by combining elements of social movement mobilization, institutional entrepreneurship, field theory, and cultural diffusion. Investigating the contemplatives sheds light on how a movement can support elites’ cultural pet projects across multiple powerful institutional fields. This approach to cultural change is particularly efficacious for elites’ and professionals’ initiatives for social reform, as they can draw upon their social networks, institutional resources, and symbolic power to advance their causes in the course of their everyday lives at work. While such movements may succeed in spreading compelling new cultures, they may struggle to initiate deeper structural social reforms.

Diverging Paths

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dirk Luyten
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
National Level ◽  
Gain Control ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
State Development ◽  
Social Reforms ◽  
Welfare State Development ◽  
The Impact

For the Netherlands and Belgium in the twentieth century, occupation is a key concept to understand the impact of the war on welfare state development. The occupation shifted the balance of power between domestic social forces: this was more decisive for welfare state development than the action of the occupier in itself. War and occupation did not result exclusively in more cooperation between social classes: some interest groups saw the war as a window of opportunity to develop strategies resulting in more social conflict. Class cooperation was often part of a political strategy to gain control over social groups or to legitimate social reforms. The world wars changed the scale of organization of social protection, from the local to the national level: after World War II social policy became a mission for the national state. For both countries, war endings had more lasting effects for welfare state development than the occupation itself.

Living Well and Health Practices among Aymara People in Northern Chile

2021 ◽  
pp. 0094582X2110049
Author(s):  
Alejandra Carreño-Calderón
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Indigenous Population ◽  
Indigenous Health ◽  
Health Programs ◽  
Northern Chile ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Buen Vivir ◽  
Living Well ◽  
Intercultural Health ◽  
Health Model

The current Chilean health model seeks to promote health equity among indigenous peoples by means of state intercultural health programs. As implemented regionally, these have been widely criticized as depoliticizing mechanisms meant to dominate the indigenous population. Study of the experiences of several indigenous health agents and associations fostered by these programs reveals that the strategic use of the concept of living well by indigenous peoples raises questions about the issues that are to be included in or excluded from the intercultural medical field. El actual modelo de salud chileno busca promover el acceso equitativo a la salud entre los pueblos indígenas a través de programas estatales de salud intercultural. Tal y como se aplican a nivel regional, estos han sido ampliamente criticados como mecanismos de despolitización diseñados para dominar a la población indígena. El estudio de las experiencias de varios agentes y asociaciones de salud indígenas impulsados por estos programas revela que el uso estratégico del concepto del buen vivir por parte de los pueblos indígenas plantea interrogantes sobre qué asuntos deben o no incluirse en el campo médico intercultural.

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