Apuestas transdisciplinarias desde el Sur Global: Repensar el desarrollo en clave dialógica
Transdisciplinary Stakes from the Global South: Rethinking Development in a Dialogically

Summary/Abstract: Capitalism deepens a crisis in human existence that manifests itself in all spheres of our lives. This existential crisis predates capitalism, but capitalism feeds on it. It is well known that while the majority of people and nations struggle to satisfy their basic needs, a minority concentrates wealth through labor exploitation and the plunder of territories, accelerating environmental devastation. In response, protecting Life, understood as a fundamental unity, becomes urgent. While some argue that we must abandon the concept of development and seek alternatives to it, or theoretical-practical substitutions such as buen vivir, this work seeks not to impoverish our culture but to reappropriate and redefine development, overcoming the economicist vision of developmentalism, the illusions of post-developmentalism, and incorporating philosophical reflections and knowledges from the South Global in a dialogue-based manner. The objective is to reconstruct the meaning of development and strengthen its ethical foundations, rather than discard it entirely, thereby mutilating our language and reducing the possibilities to name and understand the world, and therefore—and only then—to transform it.

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