El buen vivir ecologista o posdesarrollista

Ecologist or post-developmentalist buen vivir is an epistemology of the global South born from the union of different demands from indigenous, environmental, feminist and decolonial activism. Although there is an abundance of literature on what buen vivir is, there is no work that has systematised the values, proposals and claims of the ecologist -post-developmentalist trend of buen vivir. For this reason, this paper has two objectives: 1) to show the thematic pillars on which this trend of buen vivir was built and the values that support it, also showing the discrepancies that have appeared in the literature on this subject; and 2) to discuss those issues that have not been addressed in sufficient depth or that have been treated in a generic or abstract way. A review of the literature published by the ‘main representatives’ of this trend of buen vivir has been carried out using the PRISMA guidelines. These representatives were defined by seven previous works. A total of 178 works were studied using the method of thematic analysis. It was determined that the ecologist-post-developmentalist buen vivir primarily addresses three interconnected thematic blocks (economy, environment and state), which are broken down into twenty-one values, proposals and demands that shape its political-philosophical discourse. It is a paradigm that provides answers to common concerns or worries in the international sphere. However, the chameleon-like relativisation of buen vivir has generated contradictions between its values. Moreover, despite its enormous potential, there has been no empirical study of the socio-economic consequences of their proposals. As such, this is the first work that systematises the values of the ecologist-post-developmentalist buen vivir, which represents an enormous advance in the understanding of the current political agenda of part of the Latin American social movements, as well as a solid nexus with the pluriversal proposals

• The academic or hybrid trend of buen vivir

  Open Access•Aurelio García-García•Revista iberoamericana de…•2026

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