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Book Synopsis
A World of Many Worlds is a search into the possibilities that may emerge from conversations between indigenous collectives and the study of science''s philosophical production. The contributors explore how divergent knowledges and practices make worlds. They work with difference and sameness, recursion, divergence, political ontology, cosmopolitics, and relations, using them as concepts, methods, and analytics to open up possibilities for a pluriverse: a cosmos composed through divergent political practices that do not need to become the same.
Contributors. Mario Blaser, Alberto Corsín Jiménez, Déborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Trade Review"The strength of this book is its presentation and varied discussion of the omission of all of the 'other-than-human-persons' who comprise the heterogeneity of cultures that form worlds beyond the Anthropocene. . . . This book provides excellent fodder for readers to reflexively consider their individual roles in the global knowledge-making process, the outcomes they create (and are creating), and the frames within which they dwell." -- Sally A. Applin * Journal of International and Global Studies *
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A World of Many Worlds is a rich and welcome collection of essays that offers a complex and exploratory response to a timely problematic. Its statement is forthright and hallmark....” -- Mat Keel * AAG Review of Books *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction. Pluriverse: Proposals for a World of Many Worlds / Mario Blaser and Marisol de la Cadena 1
1. Opening Up Relations / Marilyn Strathern 23
2. Spiderweb Anthropologies: Ecologies, Infrastructures, Entanglements / Alberto Corsín Jiménez 53
3. The Challenge of Ontological Politics / Isabelle Stengers 83
4. The Politics of Working Cosmologies Together While Keeping Them Separate / Helen Verran 112
5. Denaturalizing Nature / John Law and Marianne Lien 131
6. Humans and Terrans in the Gaia War / Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Deborah Danowski 172
Contributors 205
Index 209
