Constructing the Pluriverse

The Geopolitics of Knowledge
Herausgeber: Reiter, Bernd

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Boatc¿, 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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 510g
• ISBN-13: 9781478000167
• ISBN-10: 1478000163
• Artikelnr.: 49346138

Autorenporträt

Bernd Reiter, editor

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity / Walter D. Mignolo  ix
Introduction / Bernd Reiter  1
Part I. Toward the Pluriverse
1. Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale / Raewyn Connell 
19
2. One Planet, Many Sciences / Sandra Harding  39
3. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Rationality: Toward Designs
for the Pluriverse / Arturo Escobar  63
4. On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after
Decolonization: Dewesternization after the Cold War / Walter D. Mignolo  90
5. Internationalism and Speaking for Others: What Struggling against
Neoliberal Globalization Taught Me about Epistemology / Aram Ziai  117
Part II. Other Ontologies
6. Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia's
Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse / Ulrich Oslender  137
7. The Griots of West Africa: Oral Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge /
Issiaka Ouattara  151
8. Experimenting with Freedom: Gandhi's Political Epistemology / Manu
Samnotra  168
9. Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional Arrangements and (De)Colonial
Entanglements / Catherine Walsh  184
Part III. Other Sciences and Epistemologies
10. Caribbean Europe: Out of Sight, out of Mind? / Manuela Boatcä  197
11. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of
Development: A Methodological Research Proposal on the Pluriverse /
Hans-Jürgen Burchardt  219
12. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century
Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) / Zaid Ahmad  240
13. Anekäntaväda: The Jaina Epistemology / Venu Mehta  259
Part IV. Rethinking Politics, Democracy, and Markets
14. First People of the Americas: Lessons on Democracy, Citizenship, and
Politics / Bernd Reiter  279
15. Iran's Path toward Islamic Reformism: A Study of Religious Intellectual
Discourse / Eshan Kashfi  298
Conclusion / Bernd Reiter  313
Contributors  319
Index  325