The contributors to Constructing the Pluriverse critique the hegemony of the postcolonial Western tradition and its claims to universality by offering a set of “pluriversal” approaches to understanding the coexisting epistemologies and practices of the different worlds and problems we inhabit and encounter. Moving beyond critiques of colonialism, the contributors rethink the relationship between knowledge and power, offering new perspectives on development, democracy, and ideology while providing diverse methodologies for non-Western thought and practice that range from feminist approaches to scientific research to ways of knowing expressed through West African oral traditions. In combination, these wide-ranging approaches and understandings form a new analytical toolbox for those seeking creative solutions for dismantling Westernization throughout the world.
Contributors. Zaid Ahmad, Manuela Boatcă, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Raewyn Connell, Arturo Escobar, Sandra Harding, Ehsan Kashfi, Venu Mehta, Walter D. Mignolo, Ulrich Oslender, Issiaka Ouattara, Bernd Reiter, Manu Samnotra, Catherine E. Walsh, Aram Ziai
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- Contents
- Foreword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity / Walter D. Mignolo
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Bernd Reiter
- Part I. Toward the Pluriverse
- 1. Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale / Raewyn Connell
- 2. One Planet, Many Sciences / Sandra Harding
- 3. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Relationality: Toward Designs for the Pluriverse / Arturo Escobar
- 4. On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after Decolonization; Dewesternization after the Cold War / Walter D. Mignolo
- 5. Internationalism and Speaking for Others: What Struggling against Neoliberal Globalization Taught Me about Epistemology / Aram Ziai
- Part II. Other Ontologies
- 6. Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia’s Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse / Ulrich Oslender
- 7. The Griots of West Africa: Oral Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge / Issiaka Ouattara
- 8. Experimenting with Freedom: Gandhi’s Political Epistemology / Manu Samnotra
- 9. Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional Arrangements and (De)Colonial Entanglements / Catherine Walsh
- Part III. Other Sciences and Epistemologies
- 10. Caribbean Europe: Out of Sight, out of Mind? / Manuela Boatcă
- 11. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodical Research Proposal on the Pluriverse / Hans-Jürgen Burchardt
- 12. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) / Zaid Ahmad
- 13. Anekāntavāda: The Jaina Epistemology / Venu Mehta
- Part IV. Rethinking Politics, Democracy, and Markets
- 14. First People of the Americas: Lessons on Democracy, Citizenship, and Politics / Bernd Reiter
- 15. Iran’s Path toward Islamic Reformism: A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse / Ehsan Kashfi
- Conclusion / Bernd Reiter
- Contributors
- Index
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