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Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface to the English Edition ix
Prologue xxxv
Acknowledgments xxxix
Introduction: Another Possible Is Possible 1
1. Theory and the Un/Real: Tools for Rethinking "Reality" and the Possible 13
2. From Below, on the Left, and with the Earth: The Difference that Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América Makes 31
3. The Earth-Form of Life: Nasa Thought and the Limits to the Episteme of Modernity 46
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Sentipensar with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South 67
5. Notes on Intellectual Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Latin American Social Theory 84
6. Postdevelopment @ 25: On "Being Stuck" and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise (a Conversation with Gustavo Esteva) 97
7. Cosmo/Visions of the Colombian Pacific Coast Region and Their Socioenvironmental Implications: Elements for a Dialogue of Cosmo/Visions 120
8. Beyond "Regional Development": A Design Model for Civilizational Transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia 136
Notes 159
References 175
Index 185
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Arturo Escobar is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the author of several books, including
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds and
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes, both also published by Duke University Press.
Zusammenfassung
Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.
