Concluding remarks

This chapter summarizes the findings of the study. It concludes that the Bolivian process of change can be best understood as a contested battlefield involving different forms of government: decolonial, neoliberal, and state oriented. The overlap and conflict of these forms illustrate the insight that the state works in complex and articulated ways in processes of social change, while indigenous terminologies have been increasingly swallowed by both neoliberal and state-led schemes of development. Thus, the decolonizing and democratizing implications of Vivir Bien for indigenous liberation and ecological sustainability have been gradually losing the battle to state-led developmentalism and capitalist alliances.

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