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Tackling Complex Inequalities and Ecuador's Buen Vivir: Leaving No‐one Behind and Equality in Diversity
Author(s) -
RADCLIFFE SARAH A.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12706
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , inequality , context (archaeology) , diversity (politics) , corporate governance , ethnic group , power (physics) , reproduction , sociology , state (computer science) , race (biology) , political science , political economy , gender studies , geography , law , economics , mathematical analysis , ecology , physics , mathematics , archaeology , finance , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science , biology
Ecuador's policy of Buen Vivir seeks to reduce social inequalities and tackle complex disadvantages associated with gender, location, race‐ethnicity, and other axes of social difference. The paper analyses governmental thinking and institutional arrangements to explore Buen Vivir's interpretations of the country's constitutional commitment to equality in diversity, in light of the Sustainable Development Goal of ‘Leaving No One Behind’ (LNOB). Situating Ecuador's array of measures in the context of postcolonial institutionalisation, the paper examines how colonial‐modern legacies of knowledge production and governance channel state Buen Vivir into the reproduction of exclusionary configurations of power and difference.