Student Publications
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Although Critical Security Studies (CSS) has done much to advance security debates, some shortcomings remain. Its excessive focus on the individual - which we term 'me' - reduces CSS' capacity to propose solutions to current global security problems such as pandemics and climate change. This paper contributes to the emerging scholarship on the potential of relational ontologies in Security Studies by introducing Buen Vivir Indigenous cosmopraxes into the debate. Indigenous cosmopraxes such as Sumak Kawsay, Suma Qamaña, and Teko Kavi, we argue, can inform CSS by providing alternative considerations to the pluriverse of ideas that address security crises. These cosmopraxes, which make up the broad notion of Buen Vivir, provide a way to think and enact security from a collective perspective, one that emphasises 'we' instead of the liberal self. In that sense, these cosmopraxes allow us to conceive security differently and face insecurities together.
Publication Title
European Journal of International Security
Publication Date
2024
ISSN
2057-5637
DOI
10.1017/eis.2024.10
Keywords
Buen Vivir, cosmopraxes, Critical Security Studies, pluriverse, security
Repository Citation
Cortinhas, Juliano; Martinelli, Yara; and Barbosa, Ricardo, "'We' instead of 'me': How Buen Vivir Indigenous cosmopraxes allow us to conceive security differently and face insecurities together" (2024). Student Publications. 32.
https://commons.clarku.edu/student_publications/32
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