Foreword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity / Walter D. Mignolo  ix
Introduction / Bernd Reiter  1
Part I. Toward the Pluriverse
1. Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale / Raewyn Connell  19
2. One Planet, Many Sciences / Sandra Harding  39
3. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Rationality: Toward Designs for the Pluriverse / Arturo Escobar  63
4. On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after Decolonization: Dewesternization after the Cold War / Walter D. Mignolo  90
5. Internationalism and Speaking for Others: What Struggling against Neoliberal Globalization Taught Me about Epistemology / Aram Ziai  117
Part II. Other Ontologies
6. Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia's Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse / Ulrich Oslender  137
7. The Griots of West Africa: Oral Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge / Issiaka Ouattara  151
8. Experimenting with Freedom: Gandhi's Political Epistemology / Manu Samnotra  168
9. Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional Arrangements and (De)Colonial Entanglements / Catherine Walsh  184
Part III. Other Sciences and Epistemologies
10. Caribbean Europe: Out of Sight, out of Mind? / Manuela Boatca?  197
11. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodological Research Proposal on the Pluriverse / Hans-Jürgen Burchardt  219
12. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) / Zaid Ahmad  240
13. Aneka¯ntava¯da: The Jaina Epistemology / Venu Mehta  259
Part IV. Rethinking Politics, Democracy, and Markets
14. First People of the Americas: Lessons on Democracy, Citizenship, and Politics / Bernd Reiter  279
15. Iran's Path toward Islamic Reformism: A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse / Eshan Kashfi  298
Conclusion / Bernd Reiter  313
Contributors  319
Index  325

Ulrich Oslender

Ehsan Kashfi

Arturo Escobar

Sandra Harding

Walter D. Mignolo

Issiaka Ouattara

Manu Samnotra

Zaid Ahmad

Venu Mehta

Raewyn Connell

Hans-Jurgen Burchardt

Manuela Boatca

Catherine E. Walsh

Aram Ziai

“Building on the call by Walter D. Mignolo and activists throughout Latin America for scholars to embrace a pluriverse of non-Western values, perspectives, and societies, this volume brings together scholars working in various postcolonial, decolonial, and alternative social theory modes. They question the hegemony of the Western tradition from a variety of perspectives, providing arguments for and examples of ways of thinking and living otherwise. Constructing the Pluriverse will be both widely read and well received by scholars across the humanities and social sciences, especially in the fields of anthropology, cultural studies, geography, and global, international, and Latin American studies.” — John Pickles, coauthor of, Articulations of Capital: Global Production Networks and Regional Transformations

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