Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverseâ a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.
Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverseâ a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.
Arturo Escobar is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of several books, including Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds and Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes, both also published by Duke University Press.
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Preface to the English Edition ix Prologue xxxv Acknowledgments xxxix Introduction: Another Possible Is Possible 1 1. Theory and the Un/Real: Tools for Rethinking "Reality" and the Possible 13 2. From Below, on the Left, and with the Earth: The Difference that Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América Makes 31 3. The Earth-Form of Life: Nasa Thought and the Limits to the Episteme of Modernity 46 4. Sentipensar with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South 67 5. Notes on Intellectual Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Latin American Social Theory 84 6. Postdevelopment @ 25: On "Being Stuck" and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise (a Conversation with Gustavo Esteva) 97 7. Cosmo/Visions of the Colombian Pacific Coast Region and Their Socioenvironmental Implications: Elements for a Dialogue of Cosmo/Visions 120 8. Beyond "Regional Development": A Design Model for Civilizational Transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia 136 Notes 159 References 175 Index 185
Preface to the English Edition ix Prologue xxxv Acknowledgments xxxix Introduction: Another Possible Is Possible 1 1. Theory and the Un/Real: Tools for Rethinking "Reality" and the Possible 13 2. From Below, on the Left, and with the Earth: The Difference that Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América Makes 31 3. The Earth-Form of Life: Nasa Thought and the Limits to the Episteme of Modernity 46 4. Sentipensar with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South 67 5. Notes on Intellectual Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Latin American Social Theory 84 6. Postdevelopment @ 25: On "Being Stuck" and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise (a Conversation with Gustavo Esteva) 97 7. Cosmo/Visions of the Colombian Pacific Coast Region and Their Socioenvironmental Implications: Elements for a Dialogue of Cosmo/Visions 120 8. Beyond "Regional Development": A Design Model for Civilizational Transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia 136 Notes 159 References 175 Index 185
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