A World of Many Worlds

“A World of Many Worlds is one of the most original, forceful, and intellectually exciting statements by critical social theorists in a long time. Readers will be left with the distinct feeling that the epistemic earth has shaken under their feet. Not only that, they will feel better equipped to live in and contribute to building worlds otherwise.” - Arturo Escobar

“It is not easy not to know in advance, not to make objects from one's knowledge as subjects. But a genuine heterogeneous pluriverse—i.e., reconstituted worlds from the ruins of extractive, extinctionist, anthropocenic, one-world modernity—requires opening to caring and knowing differently. This book teaches how not to propose one's own common sense, in order to effect uncommoning and so to be part of reconstituting worlds in which encounters can, in the words of the introduction, become 'the opportunity for the creation of concepts different from those every participating knower brought with them.’ No one becomes ‘the other,’ but also no one remains only who they were before engaging the difficult, urgent political ecology of practices to craft worlds powerful enough to defeat the Anthropocene.” - Donna J. Haraway

"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

“In general terms, this book is composed of highly abstract reflections elaborated by some of the most recognized authors in contemporary social sciences. Although we find frequent allusions to diverse, concrete ethnographic situations (above all in Helen Verran’s chapter), the central objective that lends unity to the book is the critique of the given concepts and usual interpretative frameworks of certain analytical traditions. It is in regard to this critique that A World of Many Worlds proposes certain postulates, preoccupations, and proposals…” (Translated from Spanish) - Juan Javier Rivera Andía, Anthropos

“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