Proceedings about pachamamismo, Extractivism and development in social and environmental struggles

Abstract

The deepening of the exporting extractive industry in Latin America in recent decades has opened important debates involving intellectuals, governments and peoples who resist in the areas of slaughter delivered extractivism. Thus, concepts like Pachamamismo, development, economic growth, modernity, Good Living, rights of nature, are the key to these discussions that seem essential to collectively build an alternative way to recreate the world in which we live. In this article we approach some of these discussions, with the conviction that the development associated with modernity, capitalism, the colonial organization of the world and its system of Eurocentric knowledge, is not seeking our people, not comply with the excuse of economic growth and perceived more and more clearly that the “most advanced†of economic, social and cultural organization of industrialized countries to imitate, forms are what caused this civilizational crisis in which we find . So are routed through their struggles, to build the Good Life, with human dignity and rights nature, it becomes an alternative way of living and being in the world.