[[Constructing the Pluriverse_ The Geopolitics of Knowledge — Bernd Reiter (editor) — 2018 — Duke University Press Books — 9781478000013 — 6898311878aaa5c8086722a97cb85c15 — Anna’s Archive.pdf]]

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.

Table of Contents

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 Boatca?  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. Aneka¯ntava¯da: 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