{"product_id":"constructing-the-pluriverse-9781478000167","title":"Constructing the Pluriverse","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eConstructing the Pluriverse\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors. Zaid Ahmad, Manuela Boatca, Hans-Jürgen Burchardt, Raewyn Connell, Arturo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity \/ Walter D. Mignolo  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction \/ Bernd Reiter  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Toward the Pluriverse\u003cbr\u003e 1. Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale \/ Raewyn Connell  19\u003cbr\u003e 2. One Planet, Many Sciences \/ Sandra Harding  39\u003cbr\u003e 3. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Rationality: Toward Designs for the Pluriverse \/ Arturo Escobar  63\u003cbr\u003e 4. On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after Decolonization: Dewesternization after the Cold War \/ Walter D. Mignolo  90\u003cbr\u003e 5. Internationalism and Speaking for Others: What Struggling against Neoliberal Globalization Taught Me about Epistemology \/ Aram Ziai  117\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Other Ontologies\u003cbr\u003e 6. Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia's Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse \/ Ulrich Oslender  137\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Griots of West Africa: Oral Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge \/ Issiaka Ouattara  151\u003cbr\u003e 8. Experimenting with Freedom: Gandhi's Political Epistemology \/ Manu Samnotra  168\u003cbr\u003e 9. Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional Arrangements and (De)Colonial Entanglements \/ Catherine Walsh  184\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Other Sciences and Epistemologies\u003cbr\u003e 10. Caribbean Europe: Out of Sight, out of Mind? \/ Manuela Boatcă  197\u003cbr\u003e 11. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodological Research Proposal on the Pluriverse \/ Hans-Jürgen Burchardt  219\u003cbr\u003e 12. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) \/ Zaid Ahmad  240\u003cbr\u003e 13. Anekāntavāda: The Jaina Epistemology \/ Venu Mehta  259\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Rethinking Politics, Democracy, and Markets\u003cbr\u003e 14. First People of the Americas: Lessons on Democracy, Citizenship, and Politics \/ Bernd Reiter  279\u003cbr\u003e 15. Iran's Path toward Islamic Reformism: A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse \/ Eshan Kashfi  298\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion \/ Bernd Reiter  313\u003cbr\u003e Contributors  319\u003cbr\u003e Index  325\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408967377239,"sku":"9781478000167","price":27.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478000167.jpg?v=1730504898","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/constructing-the-pluriverse-9781478000167","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}