The buen vivir in Latin America as an emancipatory possibility in development speeches

Abstract

In the last decades, the difficulties of the conventional development model in becoming, in fact, the great propeller of changes in the economic field and, therefore, in the other spheres of social life, have been critically analyzed by Latin American post-development theorists and the search for alternatives. Based on bibliographical research, this article aims to analyze the discussion on buen vivir in the field of development studies, trying to understand how this new proposal, which incorporates the cultural dimension of indigenous influence from the Andes in the search for other forms of seeing and relating harmoniously to the world, has advanced in Latin America. Despite the difficulties and challenges, buen vivir has gained space and diffusion in the academic, social and political spheres, opening up possibilities to emancipate these countries of the prevailing economic discourse on development.