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The Commons as Colonisation – The Well‐Intentioned Appropriation of Buen Vivir
Author(s) -
ALTMANN PHILIPP
Publication year - 2020
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.12941
Subject(s) - appropriation , commons , colonisation , politics , indigenous , house of commons , capitalism , amazon rainforest , sociology , political science , political economy , law , biology , ecology , philosophy , epistemology , parliament , colonization
The discussions on alternatives to capitalism led to an interest in other cultures with different ways of managing property. Concepts such as Buen Vivir are (re‐)discovered and integrated into discourses run mainly by the Global North. This implies an invisibilisation and colonisation of movements, organisations, and people as political actors. This will be traced with the case of Buen Vivir ( Sumak Kawsay ) in Ecuador, a political concept of indigenous organisations in the Amazon that was taken over by ecologist intellectuals and introduced in discussions on commons and degrowth. Thus, the concept was essentialised and the actors and their fights were invisibilised