Vivir bien is widely used by academics, activists, and governments of the Latin American ‘Pink Tide’ to refer to alternatives to conventional economic development based on indigenous worldviews claimed to oppose capitalist modernity. Through ethnography of local politics within a Bolivian Quechua community, this article explores how the term has been vernacularized and contested among local leaders, illustrating that their understandings of development and ‘living well’ do not reflect a binary opposition between ‘Western’ and ‘indigenous’ ways of being. Debates concerning vivir bien instead express varied notions of self‐government and aspirations for autonomy informed by centuries of struggle as colonized peoples.

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“好好生活”是什么意思？ Vivir bien作为替代发展的有争议的政治


Vivir bien 被拉丁美洲“粉红浪潮”的学者、活动家和政府广泛使用，指的是基于声称反对资本主义现代性的本土世界观的传统经济发展的替代方案。本文通过对玻利维亚克丘亚族社区内当地政治的民族志研究，探讨了该术语如何被本土化以及当地领导人之间的争议，说明他们对发展和“美好生活”的理解并不反映“西方”和“土著”之间的二元对立' 的存在方式。相反，关于“vivir bien”的争论表达了不同的自治观念和对自治的渴望，这些观念是作为殖民地人民几个世纪以来的斗争所体现的。