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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 Corsin Jimenez, Deborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
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 Corsin Jimenez, Deborah Danowski, Marisol de la Cadena, John Law, Marianne Lien, Isabelle Stengers, Marilyn Strathern, Helen Verran, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Acknowledgments 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
Marisol de la Cadena is Professor of Anthropology at the University
of California, Davis, and the author of Earth Beings: Ecologies of
Practice across Andean Worlds, also published by Duke University
Press.
Mario Blaser is Associate Professor of Geography and Archaeology at
the Memorial University of Newfoundland and the author of
Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond, also
published by Duke University Press.
"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."
*Journal of International and Global Studies*
“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....”
*AAG Review of Books*
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