Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on BandcampFacebook and the Free Music Archive.

Our episode image are photographs from Ingrid Aulik at http://uulitsakunst.blogspot.com.

ABOUT OUR GUEST

Kepa Artaraz is a former Lecturer in Social Policy at the University of Brighton, UK, where he worked between 2006 and 2021.

He is the author, among others, of Cuba and Western Intellectuals since 1959 (2009, Palgrave), Bolivia: Refounding the Nation (2012, Pluto), Global Social Policy: Themes, Issues and Actors (2016, Palgrave, with Michael Hill) and has recently co-edited the special issue of Latin American Perspectives Vivir bien/buen vivir and post-neoliberal development: Scope, strategies and the realities of implementation (May 2021 with Melania Calestani and Mei Trueba).

Kepa now lives with his wife on a farm in the Basque Country where works on the development of a food forest. His blog, Akauri Zahar Permaculture, is available at https://akeurizar.wordpress.com/

Further information:
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EPISODE RESOURCES

Buen Vivir: Colombia’s philosophy for good living
by Dimitri Selibas
BBC

Buen Vivir: The good life
by Philipp Altmann
Development and Cooperation

Buen Vivir: South America’s rethinking of the future we want
by Juan Francisco Salazar
The Conversation

The potential of degrowth and buen vivir in addressing underdevelopment and conflict in the Global South
by Barbara Magalhães Teixeira
Degrowth.info

From Capitalism to ‘Buen Vivir’
by Victor M. Toledo and Jane K. Brundage 
Esperanza Project

Buen Vivir: Examining Well-being in Colombia at a Time of Protest and Police Violence
by Jaclyn Severance
UConn Today

Buen vivir (Good Living): A “Glocal” Genealogy of a Latin American Utopia for the World
by Adrián E. Beling et al.
Latin American Perspectives

Towards an ecological economics
by David Caicedo Sarralde
The Ecologist

Buen Vivir: an Andean indigenous challenge to modern development
by Nazreen Shivlani
KCL Latin American Society

Latin American Visions for a Digital New Deal: Towards Buen Vivir with Data
by Stefania Milan and Emiliano Treré
IT for Change

Challenges for the Implementation of the Rights of Nature: Ecuador and Bolivia as the First Instances of an Expanding Movement
by María Valeria Berros
Latin American Perspectives

The Age of Transition: Postdevelopment and North-South Synergies
by Parisa Nourani Rinaldi
Latin American Perspectives

Posthuman rights struggles and environmentalisms from below in the political ontologies of Ecuador and Colombia
by Rosemary J Coombe and David J Jefferson
Journal of Human Rights and the Environment