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Nicaragua's Buen Vivir: a strategy for tourism development?
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Although often framed as an emerging anthropocenic socio-ecological imaginary, the Latin American paradigm of Buen Vivir has provided a broad base of support for tourism development in the region.Abstract:
Although often framed as an emerging anthropocenic socio-ecological imaginary, the Latin American paradigm of Buen Vivir has provided a broad base of support for tourism development in the region. ...read more
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Degrowing tourism: rethinking tourism
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles,Sandro Carnicelli,Chris Krolikowski,Gayathri Wijesinghe,Karla Boluk +4 more
TL;DR: The Limits to Growth (LTOG) report as discussed by the authors has been widely criticised due to human impacts on the natural environment, particularly due to the human impact on the environment, and since that time, neoliberal capitalism has become increas...
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Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds
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Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America
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Post COVID-19 ecological and social reset: moving away from capitalist growth models towards tourism as Buen Vivir
TL;DR: The COVID-19 global pandemic is an 'unprecedented crisis' and has exposed the pitfalls of a hyper consumption model of econo... as discussed by the authors, and tourism has been one of the industries most highly affected by the crisis.
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Buen Vivir: Degrowing extractivism and growing wellbeing through tourism
TL;DR: Buen Vivir (BV) as mentioned in this paper is a holistic vision for social and environmental wellbeing, which includes alternative economic activities to the neoliberal growth economy, and it looks at how tourism initi...
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The Will to Improve: Governmentality, Development, and the Practice of Politics
TL;DR: In this paper, Tania Murray Li carefully exposes the practices that enable experts to diagnose problems and devise interventions, and the agency of people whose conduct is targeted for reform, focusing on attempts to improve landscapes and livelihoods in Indonesia.
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The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
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Coloniality of Power, Eurocentrism, and Latin America
Aníbal Quijano,Michael Ennis +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the implications of coloniality of power regarding the history of Latin America are discussed, and some of the theoretically necessary questions about the potential implications of colonialism on Latin America's history are opened up.
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Cultivating Development: An Ethnography of Aid Policy and Practice
TL;DR: In this paper, Mosse shows how the actions of development workers are shaped by the exigencies of organisations and the need to maintain relationships rather than by policy; but also that development actors work hardest of all to maintain coherent representations of their actions as instances of authorised policy.
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Encountering Development: The Making and the Unmaking of the Third World
TL;DR: In this new edition, Escobar affi rms that development continues to play a role in strategies of cultural and social domination, yet acknowledges that "[his] own views on the subject have changed in important respects" as mentioned in this paper.