Las huellas del desarrollo en la construcción de la identidad y la cosmovisión indígenas en el buen vivir ecuatoriano y el convivir bien bolivianolos casos de la Atenas del Ecuador y la Ciudad Blanca de Bolivia

Abstract

In the current context, the paradigms of Sumaq Kawsay (and its Buen Vivir) in Ecuador and Suma Qamaña (and its Convivir Bien) in Bolivia are articulated as an effective alternative, far removed from the existing economic-political logics for realizing a better future. To that end, they have constructed a series of images and discourses which bring them closer to certain assumptions situated outside of the global hegemonic structures where both models, in a permanent state of construction, are disarticulated, reconsidered and reformulated. Nonetheless, this entire process seems to get stuck in a dialectic level without any way of reflecting the different socioeconomic realities of Ecuador and Bolivia, realities in which, removed from the pluri-nationalism and diversity which they proclaim, will be settled specific representations that (re)signify what it means to "be indigenous" and what type of indigenous person is desired or needed for the proper progress of the country: namely, those who can speak the language of development and who wish to be developed.