Ecuador’s “Good Living”

Carlos E. Gallegos Anda, Ph.D. (2020) Australian National University. Dr. Gallegos-Anda has served in various positions within the Ecuadorian Government and consulted for a number of international organizations. He has published monographs, translations and edited books regarding environmental law, indigenous rights, Latin-American politics, international public law and socioeconomic rights.

• List of FiguresIntroduction1 The Context of Good Living2 Critical Approaches towards Good Living3 Why Good Living?4 On Methodology5 Positioning Critical Good Living: discourse and Rights6 Book Layout1 The Context of Good Living: situating Theory and Method1 Method2 Politicised Ethnic Cleavage3 The Retreating State4 Changing Citizenship Regimes5 Wider Theoretical Framing6 Transnational Governmentality7 Social Protest and Discursive Democracy8 Conclusion2 Good Living in the Academic Literature1 Ecuadorian Discussions on Good Living2 Indigenist or Pachamama Good Living3 Developmental or Statist Good Living4 Ecologist and Post-developmental Good Living5 Critical Approaches towards Good Living: power Not Ontology3 The Critical Juncture1 Theory-guided Process Tracing2 Development Paradigms in Indigenous Communities3 Defining the Theory Behind a Theory4 Lead-up to the Critical Juncture: 1960–19794.1 Agrarian Revolts and Reforms4.2 Oil Induced Military Nationalism5 Economic, Institutional, and Political Breakdown5.1 State Retreat5.2 Regionalist Challenges to State Building5.3 Economic Turmoil and Reform during the 1980s5.4 The Financial Meltdown of the 1990s5.5 Inter-branch Crises and Ghost Coalitions6 Politicised Ethnic Cleavages: rise and Fall of Indigenous Mobilisation7 Changing Citizenship Regimes7.1 The Quest for Civic Virtue7.2 Constitutional Convergence and Graduated Sovereignty7.3 Diffusion and the Scripts of Modernity8 The Inter-American Human Rights System8.1 Selected Jurisprudence: vida Digna 8.2 The Graduated Sovereignty of the GATT 9 Conclusion4 The Polymorphism of Good Living1 The New Governmentality2 Transnational Governmentality and the Critical Juncture3 The Theme of Social Capital4 Social Capital or the Myth of Ethnodevelopment5 The Sources of Social Capital6 The Master Framing of Transgressive Politics7 The Empty Signifier Is Born8 Yasuní: a Case Study on the Empty Signifier9 Yasuni and the Discourse of Good Living5 Beyond Living Well1 Crafting Good Living: from Speaking to Listening2 Exhaustion of the Rights Discourse3 The Importation of Law: local and International Influences4 From Human Dignity to Vida Digna5 Graduated Sovereignty and the Role of the IACtHR6 The Vida Digna Jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights7 Convergence of Rights: domestic Approaches to Economic, Social and Cultural Rights8 Back to Basics: recalibrating the “Engine Room of the Constitution”9 ConclusionBibliographyIndex