La notion de Vivir Bien en Bolivie et en Équateur, réelle alternative au paradigme de la modernité ?

Abstract

Nowadays, the Andean notion of Vivir Bien is in several Latin-American constitutions, particularly found in Bolivia and Ecuador. For over a decade both of these countries have been engaged in a “process of change” or a “Citizens’ Revolution” ushering in a new constitutional period. However, a survey of this concept, which is now a constitutional norm, shows ambiguity and a contradiction posed in their same Constitutions, proving that it has been perverted by current governments and no longer is an “ontological reestablishment”. While this recent notion was thought in the 1990’s against the Occidental modernity for the purpose of a new political stance it becomes today a synonym of development. This article will focus on the theoretical approach of the concept of Vivir Bien and its various legal developments. Finally this notion will be defined as a philosophical and political statemate.

Keywords

• indigenous peoples
• State
• constitution
• neoextractivism
• nature