Aportes a la construcción del buen vivir desde las comunidades, organizaciones y movimientos sociales de la provincia del Azuay

Abstract

- The Good Life has been a topic of debate in recent years in Ecuador, from the Constitutional process that resulted in the Constitution of the year two thousand eight. Then, some universities have created opportunities for analysis and research on the Good Life, which is why an investigation has raised this issue with this thesis for the Master in Local Development with a concentration in population and territory of the University of Cuenca.

- Thinking on the Development has several current and modernist, structuralist, neo-marxist, neoliberal, and alternative development.

- In the methodological aspect of the research has been applied qualitative research based on discourse analysis.

- The concept of Good Living in the Ecuadorian context from various sources of thought, primarily from the contributions of social movements, academia and NGO’s.

- In Ecuador there have been various currents on the Good Life: the post-neoliberal/estatista, the postdesarrollista/environmentalist, the indigenous / pachamamista.