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The concept of "Buen Vivir" (living well) and social work
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Abstract This article will shortly discuss four main challenges that the concept and social movement of Buen Vivir (or Living Well) from Andean indigenous communities represents for social work and the current constants of the social work profession. These are the idea of development and the outcome approach... view more
This article will shortly discuss four main challenges that the concept and social movement of Buen Vivir (or Living Well) from Andean indigenous communities represents for social work and the current constants of the social work profession. These are the idea of development and the outcome approach, the idea of what a good life means, ethical individualism and anthropocentrism.... view less
Keywords
social work; well-being; indigenous peoples; Andean Region; anthropocentrism; way of life; sustainable development; Latin America
Classification
Ethnology, Cultural Anthropology, Ethnosociology
Social Work, Social Pedagogics, Social Planning
Free Keywords
well-being; living-well; buen vivir; andean indigenous
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
4 p.
Status
Primary Publication
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0