Quality of Life from the South, Local Knowledge, Socio-Ecological Relationships, and Citizen Participation in Times of Global Climate Change

authored by: Javier Lastra Bravo, Jorge Rojas Hernández
Abstract: The quality of life in the South is coping with several problems and tensions that require solution: poverty, socio-territorial and climatic inequalities, lack of scientific and technological development, corruption, migration, lack of access to services, obsolescence of public institutions, and low citizen’s participation in the social affairs. There is a global crisis of the Anthropocene’s development model. Currently, this context explains multiple mobilizations such as social, environmental, gender, ethnic, working class, and student ones in the South, especially in Latin America. The mobilizations tend to deepen to the extent that the underlying problems are not solved with due urgency, depth, and focus on the human dignity. However, most people and communities value, practice, and aspire to improve their levels of quality of life. This is based on experiences and traditions—such as Living Well—that they have cultivated, beyond the empire of colonizing forces and based on common goods that have learned in a closer relationship with nature. In the South, there is cultural diversity, good coexistence practices, cooperative traditions, food quality, and biodiversity that are the bases for deepening the dreaming quality of life.
Organisation(s): Sociology Department
External Organisation(s): Universidad de Concepcion
Type: Contribution to book/anthology
Pages: 1-21
No. of pages: 21
Publication date: 29.08.2019
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
Sustainable Development Goals: SDG 13 - Climate Action
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.88953 (Access: Open)

BibTeX

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title = "Quality of Life from the South, Local Knowledge, Socio-Ecological Relationships, and Citizen Participation in Times of Global Climate Change",
abstract = "The quality of life in the South is coping with several problems and tensions that require solution: poverty, socio-territorial and climatic inequalities, lack of scientific and technological development, corruption, migration, lack of access to services, obsolescence of public institutions, and low citizen{\textquoteright}s participation in the social affairs. There is a global crisis of the Anthropocene{\textquoteright}s development model. Currently, this context explains multiple mobilizations such as social, environmental, gender, ethnic, working class, and student ones in the South, especially in Latin America. The mobilizations tend to deepen to the extent that the underlying problems are not solved with due urgency, depth, and focus on the human dignity. However, most people and communities value, practice, and aspire to improve their levels of quality of life. This is based on experiences and traditions—such as Living Well—that they have cultivated, beyond the empire of colonizing forces and based on common goods that have learned in a closer relationship with nature. In the South, there is cultural diversity, good coexistence practices, cooperative traditions, food quality, and biodiversity that are the bases for deepening the dreaming quality of life.",
author = "{Lastra Bravo}, Javier and {Rojas Hern{\'a}ndez}, Jorge",
note = "Funding information: I especially appreciate the financial support you have provided me, and that made possible the elaboration, translation, and editing of this chapter, to the Water Research Center for Agriculture and Mining (CRHIAM), Conicyt/Fondap/15130015 of the Universidad de Concepci{\'o}n, Chile, and Interdisciplinary Research Center of Excellence (www.crhiam.cl. +5641 2661758).",
year = "2019",
month = aug,
day = "29",
doi = "10.5772/intechopen.88953",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781789852073",
pages = "1--21",
editor = "Irtelli, {Floriana } and Frederico Durbano and Taukeni, {Simon George}",
booktitle = "Quality of Life",
publisher = "IntechOpen",
}