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Aproximación crítico–hermenéutica a la noción de bienestar en el marco del neoliberalismo
(Universidad Del Zulia; Maracaibo, Venezuela, 2018-10-01) Villasana López, Pedro Enrique; Gómez, Rubén Darío; De Vos, Pol
This discussion was developed by six hands, with multiple disagreements, but with the consensus to persevere in the debate. We aimed at contributing to the resignification of the polysemic notion of welfare, questioning a vision of welfare that focuses on consumption, success, and its instrumentalist standardization, and proposing a view toward life, happiness, harmony, and others possible senses of wellbeing. For this purpose, we discuss elements of onto-epistemological character of the configuration process of the prevalent representations of welfare in the neoliberal global village, seen as a political process, and as an expression of historically positioned material interests. Our critical analysis, based on daily experiences, allows to question this interpretation, and to visualize possibilities of undoing the concept of well-being of its purely materialist interpretation, approaching it as a utopia, claiming the decolonization of life.