Latin American Perspectives on Global Development

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Although as a vast subcontinent, Latin America reflects diverse perspectives of life, senses of identity, cultural and spiritual outlooks, its constituting countries share a specific history of resistance against the prevalent patterns of global development. However, Latin America presents newer accounts of development understood as genuine views on human well-being derived from a sense of its own specific identity. In an emerging renaissance emphasizing human flourishing as the ultimate goal, Latin America is shifting gears towards an ethical perspective on global development. Distinct here is an emphasis on philosophy, theology, literature, arts, music, and cinema as fertile terrains depicting how the subcontinent must draw its own unique picture of development. Today, it is undergoing a diverse cultural, philosophical and spiritual growth, and holds exciting potential to be aligned with, and contribute to, the contemporary debates around the ethics of global development. This book discusses Latin American perspectives against the backdrop of the mainstream view of development, which portrays economic growth as development. It also looks at historical context, cultural diversity, cultural richness and the complex philosophy of life in the Latin American perspective to address the subcontinents deep cultural heritage, the depiction of its identity, and its philosophy of life. Additionally, this book discusses how the causes of inequality and malaises such as social crime can be eliminated, and more importantly, how the prosperity and economic, social, and human development of the subcontinent (and the world in general) may be improved. Table of Contents 1. Latin American Alternatives on Global Development: Notes for Readers • Mahmoud Masaeli, German Bula and Samuel Ernest Harrington Part I: Oppression and Resistance 2. Discourse of Independence: Latin American Enlightenment and Indigenism • Myriam A. Zapata Jiménez and Iván Ramón Rodríguez Benavides 3. Activism and Literary Resistance: The Pen Is Mightier Than the Banana • Carlos-Germán van der Linde 4. Operation Condor: The Struggle against Political Repression and a Quest for Justice, Truth, and Historical Memory • Katterin Pauna Diaz, Robert Ojeda Pérez and Julio C. Botero 5. Memory and Peace Building: Women’s Resistance in Latin America • Elvira Sánchez-Blake 6. The Condition of the Colonized: From Violence to Power a Necessary Ethical Attitude • Hernando Estevez Part II: Latin American Philosophy of Life 7. Latin American Identity and the Emergence of Globalisation • Pablo Isla 8. Why do We need Poets in Times of the Life Crisis? The Urgent Need foran Environmental Shift in the Creation of Culture in America-Abya YalaAna Patricia Noguera de Echeverri and Gladys Giraldo Montoya 9. On the Political Ontology of Latin-American Socioecological Movements • Juan Camilo Cajigas-Rotundo 10. The Efficiency of Subjective Well-being: A Key to Latin American Development • Pablo Beytía 11. Latin American Cities and Happiness • María Olga Bula Part III: Latin American Alternatives for Development 12. The Ideal of Integration and Unity in Latin America • Santiago Ávila Venegas 13. Chile as Subject and Object of Experiment: Salvador Allende and Cybernetics; Pinochet and the Chicago Boys • Germán Bula 14. Identity and Otherness in Autopoietic Organization: Maturana and Varela’s Contribution to the Understanding of Organisms and Societies • María Clara Garavito and Andrés Felipe Villamil 15. Post-Development Scholars and Development in Latin America • Azadeh Momeni 16. Participatory Action Research as a Plan for Life • Myriam A. Zapata Jiménez Part IV: Case Studies 17. Nasa Indigenous Guard: Physical Position as a Power of the Commons • Andrés Ricardo Alayón Rodríguez 18. Whose Knowledge Counts? Harmony and Spirituality in Miskitu Counter-Narratives • Jessica Martínez-Cruz 19. Interferences: Identity and Cooperation in Latin American Electroacoustic Music • Carlos Gustavo Román Echeverri and José Miguel Luna Rojas 20. The Women of Colombia: Building Peace with Their Hands • Constanza Lopez Baquero 21. Ethical Points of the Political Field: Voices of Young Latin American University Students • Carlos Valerio Echavarría Grajales and Hernán Ferney Rodríguez García