Constructing the Pluriverse

Bernd Reiter is Professor of Political Science at the University of South Florida; author of The Crisis of Liberal Democracy and the Path Ahead and The Dialectics of Citizenship: Exploring Privilege, Exclusion, and Racialization; and coeditor of Bridging Scholarship and Activism: Reflections from the Frontlines of Collaborative Research and The Making of Brazil’s Black Mecca: Bahia Reconsidered.

• Foreword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity / Walter D. Mignolo  ixIntroduction / Bernd Reiter  1Part I. Toward the Pluriverse1. Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale / Raewyn Connell  192. One Planet, Many Sciences / Sandra Harding  393. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Rationality: Toward Designs for the Pluriverse / Arturo Escobar  634. On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after Decolonization: Dewesternization after the Cold War / Walter D. Mignolo  905. Internationalism and Speaking for Others: What Struggling against Neoliberal Globalization Taught Me about Epistemology / Aram Ziai  117Part II. Other Ontologies6. Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia's Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse / Ulrich Oslender  1377. The Griots of West Africa: Oral Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge / Issiaka Ouattara  1518. Experimenting with Freedom: Gandhi's Political Epistemology / Manu Samnotra  1689. Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional Arrangements and (De)Colonial Entanglements / Catherine Walsh  184Part III. Other Sciences and Epistemologies10. Caribbean Europe: Out of Sight, out of Mind? / Manuela Boatcă  19711. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodological Research Proposal on the Pluriverse / Hans-JÜrgen Burchardt  21912. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) / Zaid Ahmad  24013. Anekāntavāda: The Jaina Epistemology / Venu Mehta  259Part IV. Rethinking Politics, Democracy, and Markets14. First People of the Americas: Lessons on Democracy, Citizenship, and Politics / Bernd Reiter  27915. Iran's Path toward Islamic Reformism: A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse / Eshan Kashfi  298Conclusion / Bernd Reiter  313Contributors  319Index  325

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