Systemic alternatives and the Buen Vivir: recognizing confluences

Abstract

This article aims to contextualize the Buen Vivir in the universe of systemic alternatives under debate in the world and to point out confluences and complementarities between them, through a narrative literature review. To do so, initially, it presents the elements and foundations of the Buen Vivir, built from epistemology and ontology anchored in the "anti-imperial South" and based on the axes of Coloniality - which is opposed to Eurocentrism and racism - of the Rights of Nature - raised to the level of Human Rights - and State Reform - conducted from the emancipatory perspective of social movements and traditional peoples -, and indicates the incidence of these axes in the debate on development. It then demonstrates how the practices instituted by Coloniality organized the planet, structured global power, and constituted the crises we are experiencing - environmental, economic, social, geopolitical, institutional, and civilizational. Finally, it lists and characterizes political and economic movements - degrowth, ecofeminism, Mother Earth's rights, commons, deglobalization, ecosocialism, food sovereignty, solidarity economy, and ubuntu - alternatives to the hegemonic development model, to sensitize those interested in a new world order, inclusive, egalitarian and respectful of human rights and nature, for the necessary articulation and integration of theories and practices contrary to the methods and objectives of extractivism, financism, patriarchy, racism, consumerism, and warmongering