Comunicación para el buen vivir / Vivir bien en América Latina (Abya Yala). Hacia una construcción de diálogos interculturales

Abstract

This research proposal is the second phase of the project "Thinking of the 21st Century University as a territory for Coexistence", currently underway, and which has aimed to understand how the notions of Good Living / Living Well and Decreasing contribute to think the University of the XXI Century. After an exhaustive documentary search carried out in different countries of Latin America and Europe, we have found for the first, in its great majority, a closer relationship between higher education and the notions of Good Living / Living Well, associated with interculturality with more influence from the functional perspective, and a little less from critical interculturality (Walsh, 2009). In other cases, (like Uruguay) the notions of Good Living / Living Well have not been considered in institutions of higher education because there are no constitutional and normative developments that allow it, which constitutes an impediment in this country. On the other hand, it is necessary to highlight the research of Professor Daniel Mato (2016) about intercultural higher education in Latin America, who has argued that one must transcend from the dialogue of knowledge to the construction of sustainable modalities of intercultural collaboration with the peoples indigenous peoples, a proposal that is valued and enriches this research. On the other hand, we have found some concrete experiences initiated or linked to European universities, especially in France, Italy and Spain in relation to the Decrease, but in most of the time without vocation of permanence and as isolated activities, and in some cases with a tenuous relationship to the missionary commitment of the European universities and higher education institutions that we have reviewed. Both in one case and in another, the previous account of the debt that higher education has for the recognition of other knowledge and sociocultural practices of local communities, which are inspired by the Good Living and Decrease, which disrupt the hegemonic modes of construction and reproduction of knowledge that are currently replicated in the vast majority of universities around the world.