El buen (con)vivir, una utopía por (re)construir: alcances de la Constitución de Montecristi
@article{Acosta2011ElB, title={El buen (con)vivir, una utop{\'i}a por (re)construir: alcances de la Constituci{\'o}n de Montecristi}, author={Alberto Acosta}, journal={OBETS : Revista de Ciencias Sociales}, year={2011}, volume={6}, pages={35-67} }
This essay is an analysis from the Andean vision of the concept of Good Living based on the Ecuadorian Constitution, drafted in Montecristi and approved in 2008. In it, the Good Living is a right recognized along with the rights of the Nature. From the contents of this Constitution emerge multiple proposals to promote fundamental changes, built up over many decades of resistance and social struggles in which were built alternative development proposals and even alternatives to development, as…
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