Vivir Bien as an Alternative to Neoliberal Globalization: Can Indigenous Terminologies Decolonize the State?

ISBN-13: 9780367592233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 190 str.

Eija Ranta

Opis

This book analyses the opportunities and challenges of decolonizing and transforming a modern, hierarchical and globally-immersed nation-state on the basis of indigenous terminologies.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Vivir Bien as a post-neoliberal alternative in the global world 2. Towards decolonial government 3. Indigenous resistance struggles, coloniality of the state and the capitalist world-system: A historical view 4. Contested meanings of Vivir Bien 5. "Colonialism strikes back": Vivir Bien as bureaucratic practice and technical expertise 6. Bureaucracy as a disciplinary power 7. In the name of Vivir Bien: Legitimizing extractive conflicts? 8. Concluding remarks

O autorze

Eija Ranta is university lecturer in development studies at the University of Helsinki.