Transcending the nature-society dichotomy: A dialogue between the Sumak Kawsay and the epistemology of complexity

This transdisciplinary research wants to propose a way to transcend the nature/society dichotomy in the ecological economy, through an ecology of knowledge between Sumak Kawsay (an indigenous Andean worldview) and the epistemology of complexity. It applies a qualitative methodology, including a critical review of studies on Sumak Kawsay, the definition of nature, complexity, complex systems, and the epistemology of complexity. He criticizes the conception of nature held by modern Western science, which has given rise to the nature/society dichotomy as the epistemic basis within ecological economics, and proposes an epistemic convergence between Sumak Kawsay and complexity epistemology for
transcend the aforementioned dichotomy, including notions such as Pacha Mama, with the desire to include the principles of ancestral knowledge that point towards community, inclusion, horizontality, complexity, interculturality and transdisciplinarity, to influence scientific research, in particular in the ecological economy field.