A World of Many Worlds
Published on 23. November 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-4780-0295-6 (ISBN)
Description
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
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
Reviews / Votes
"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) "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)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
North Carolina
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
7 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
346 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4780-0295-6 (9781478002956)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Marisol de la Cadena | Mario Blaser
A World of Many Worlds
E-Book
10/2018
1st Edition
De Gruyter
€198.99
Available for download
Persons
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.
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.
Content
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 CorsIn JimEnez 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
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 CorsIn JimEnez 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