This article creates an inter-epistemic dialogue between degrowth and Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay based on qualitative research conducted in Ecuador. It builds on degrowth scholarship that considers cultural change an integral part of sustainability transformations. The article envisions what that change could look like by developing non-anthropocentric and de-individualised visions of sustainability transformations. It thereby advances recently reignited debates around limits to growth and artificial scarcity. Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay is an Andean-Amazonian indigenous conceptualisation of Good Living. An engagement with the reciprocal practices, behaviours and rituals of its protagonists yields three insights for the cultural politics of degrowth. First, cosmological limits to growth are normative constraints to harming the Living World and arise from relational ontologies that embed the human into the natural world. Second, the political economy of Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay produces affective abundance via reciprocity with the non-human world. This offers a de-individualised understanding of abundance for degrowth, beyond enjoyment and provision of universal basic services. Third, these ideas can be implemented in practice through Rights of Nature, put forward here as a viable policy option because of its potential to impute relational worldviews into materialist understandings of nature. These pluriverse avenues can enact cultural change towards sustainability transformations.

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增长、情感丰盛和自然权利的宇宙学极限：Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay 对去增长的文化政治的见解


本文基于在厄瓜多尔进行的定性研究，在 degrowth 和 Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay 之间建立了一次认识间对话。它建立在去增长学术的基础上，认为文化变革是可持续发展转型不可或缺的一部分。本文设想了通过制定非人类中心主义和非个人化的可持续性转型愿景，这种变化会是什么样子。因此，它推动了最近重新点燃的关于增长限制和人为稀缺性的辩论。Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay 是安第斯-亚马逊土著对美好生活的概念化。参与其主角的互惠实践、行为和仪式，为去增长的文化政治提供了三个见解。首先，宇宙学对增长的限制是损害生物世界的规范性约束，它源于将人类嵌入自然世界的关系本体论。其次，Buen Vivir/sumak kawsay 的政治经济学通过与非人类世界的互惠产生情感丰富。这为去增长的丰富性提供了一种非个人化的理解，超越了享受和提供普遍的基本服务。第三，这些想法可以通过自然权利在实践中实施，这里提出来是一个可行的政策选择，因为它有可能将关系世界观归咎于对自然的唯物主义理解。这些多元化的途径可以推动文化变革，以实现可持续性转型。