Since the 1990s, Latin America has witnessed indigenous mobilization which contest the public policies implemented by their governments. They contend that public policy is not about following a linear development model of material accumulation, but about buen vivir or Good Living, about...

"The question of the meaning of progress and development is back on the political agenda. How to frame this discontent and search for new alternatives when either socialism or liberalism no longer provides a satisfactory framework? This book introduces in an accessible way the capability...

1. Development and ethics -- 2. Living well : wellbeing and agency -- 3. Acting justly : relations and responsibility -- 4. Assessing and transforming social realities -- 5. The forming and speaking of the language.