ABSTRACT
Scholars such as Arturo Escobar and Walter Mignolo have emphasized the importance of indigenous perspectives and the idea of buen vivir in contemporary Latin American politics. Buen vivir can be seen as an initiative to decolonize the knowledge system of the western(ized) capitalist linear development model and embark on a philosophical and theoretical engagement with sociocultural and environmental issues. Inclusion of non-Western perspectives, such as the one based on buen vivir presented in this chapter, and engaging in intercultural dialogues about the process of knowledge production, can be one way of unsettling Eurocentrism in the westernized university. The chapter reflects upon what Western feminisms could learn from indigenous feminists in Latin America, using buen vivir. It intends to bridge the gap between western(ized) and Latin American feminist debates and discussions by contextualizing the Mayan feminists' arguments in a regional as well as global context.
