Ecuador's Good Living : Crises, Discourse and Law.

Intro -- Ecuador's "Good Living": Crises, Discourse and Law -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Context of Good Living -- 2 Critical Approaches towards Good Living -- 3 Why Good Living? -- 4 On Methodology -- 5 Positioning Critical Good Living Discourse and Rights -- 6 Book Layout -- 1 The Context of Good Living: Situating Theory and Method -- 1 Method -- 2 Politicised Ethnic Cleavage -- 3 The Retreating State -- 4 Changing Citizenship Regimes -- 5 Wider Theoretical Framing -- 6 Transnational Governmentality -- 7 Social Protest and Discursive Democracy -- 8 Conclusion -- 2 Good Living in the Academic Literature -- 1 Ecuadorian Discussions on Good Living -- 2 Indigenist or Pachamama Good Living -- 3 Developmental or Statist Good Living -- 4 Ecologist and Post-developmental Good Living -- 5 Critical Approaches towards Good Living Power Not Ontology -- 3 The Critical Juncture -- 1 Theory-guided Process Tracing -- 2 Development Paradigms in Indigenous Communities -- 3 Defining the Theory behind a Theory -- 4 Lead-up to the Critical Juncture 1960-1979 -- 5 Economic, Institutional, and Political Breakdown -- 6 Politicised Ethnic Cleavages Rise and Fall of Indigenous Mobilisation -- 7 Changing Citizenship Regimes -- 8 The Inter-American Human Rights System -- 9 Conclusion -- 4 The Polymorphism of Good Living -- 1 The New Governmentality -- 2 Transnational Governmentality and the Critical Juncture -- 3 The Theme of Social Capital -- 4 Social Capital or the Myth of Ethnodevelopment -- 5 The Sources of Social Capital -- 6 The Master Framing of Transgressive Politics -- 7 The Empty Signifier Is Born -- 8 Yasuní a Case Study on the Empty Signifier -- 9 Yasuni and the Discourse of Good Living -- 10 Conclusion -- 5 Beyond Living Well -- 1 Crafting Good Living from Speaking to Listening -- 2 Exhaustion of the Rights Discourse.

3 The Importation of Law Local and International Influences -- 4 From Human Dignity to Vida Digna -- 5 Graduated Sovereignty and the Role of the IACtHR -- 6 The Vida Digna Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights -- 7 Convergence of Rights Domestic Approaches to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights -- 8 Back to Basics Recalibrating the "Engine Room of the Constitution -- 9 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.

Ecuador's "Good Living": Crises, Discourse, and Law by Gallegos-Anda, presents a critical approach towards the concept of Buen Vivir that was included in Ecuador's 2008 Constitution, presenting new inductive theories that analyse the context and power relations that forged it.

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