This article reviews Latin American discourses on good living (buen vivir) between 1992 and 2017 with the aim of identifying the different meanings that it acquired as a signifier with multiple mean-ings. An overview of this recent history reveals five different meanings (primal, hybrid, indigenist, socialist and post-developmentalist), which correspond to three different historical moments (emergence and ex-pansion, assemblage and dislocation). These structure a continuous re-signification of this concept during this period.