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

John Law

Alberto Corsín Jiménez

Isabelle Stengers

Helen Verran

Deborah Danowski

Marianne Elisabeth Lien

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro

Marilyn Strathern

“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

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