Nonviolent actions that promote new rights, question dominant discourses and practices of progress and development, challenge the coloniality of power, knowledge and being. These resistances, especially in defence of the rights of nature and communities, are not adequately integrated in studies of civil resistance. This text explores how good living or Sumak Kawsay in Ecuador contributes to nonviolent resistance, identifying points of encounter, divergence and complementarity between the two concepts and approaches to their practical orientation. It highlights the decolonial approach of Sumak Kawsay in the reclaiming of being, knowledge and power, and points out that its incorporation into studies of nonviolent resistance could generate a more inclusive and sensitive approach to the struggles of indigenous peoples.
