Abstract
The article analyzes the contributions of the notions of Good Living attributable to epistemologies, traditions, and subjective well-being at work, given the current changes in the working context, to enrich the concept of human development. The article is developed with an analytical-descriptive and synthetic approach, reconstructing the concept of Good Living through a theoretical-economic, ontological, and epistemological comparison and its dimensional axes. Methodologically, a systematic review of human development literature is used in Latin America through the Web of Science (WOS), comparing the UNDP Technical Notes (HDI) with the various approaches to Good Living published between 2010 and 2020. These documents were subjected to semantic contrast, with reference to the various dimensions and positions of human development as a generator of subjective well-being for the configuration of public labor policies. The main findings refer to the disagreement points evidenced in the two-axes dimensions of the Good Living measurement systems (mobility and safety, and cultural satisfaction within territories), an important factor being the sumak kawsay, the concept of Good Living. Sumak is fullness, the sublime, excellent, magnificent, beautiful, superior. Kawsay is life, being. However, it is dynamic, changing, and is not a passive question, and is thus not considered by the different evolutionary changes of the HDI.
Highlights
COVID-19 has unsettled billions of lives and endangered the global economy
Good Living or sumak kawsay is a concept that breaks from traditional paradigms [35] and focuses on the philosophy of a balanced relationship between people, their community, their well-being at work and their natural environment [36]
The findings provided by our research confirm, broadly, that sumak kawsay, originally an indigenous paradigm, in addition to expressing a philosophy of life, constitutes a critique of Western development as a universal, homogenizing and exclusionary model that prevails over its cultures and territories [35]
Summary
COVID-19 has unsettled billions of lives and endangered the global economy. TheInternational Monetary Fund [1] foresees a global recession as bad as, or worse than, the one in 2009. Good Living or sumak kawsay is a concept that breaks from traditional paradigms [35] and focuses on the philosophy of a balanced relationship between people, their community, their well-being at work and their natural environment [36]. In other words, it is based on the responsible enjoyment of human rights while respecting common goods in the context of harmonious coexistence. From the revision of the literature, a succinct theoretical presentation is made here about the evolution of the notion of development, which leads to consideration of the main trajectories in which this discussion has moved
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