For Emplacement

Political Ontology in Two Acts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

Av Mario Blaser

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In For Emplacement, Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for contending with the momentous challenges facing the world, from anthropogenic climate change to rampant socioeconomic inequalities to the rise of neofascism. Blaser shows that the prevalent solutions to these problems-which often depend on intensifying globalization, technological development, and extractivism-only deepen these crises. Effectively addressing these issues, he suggests, might require grounding our ways of being in the specificities of place. Drawing on decades of ethnographic experience in South America and the Canadian subarctic, and engaging with material semiotics, Blaser recasts the fundamental political question of how to live together well as a cosmopolitical one: how to become emplaced with others, in divergence. Ultimately, he presents a political ontology where visions of the good life oriented to the specificities of place guide us through the promises and challenges that a journey toward emplacement holds.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-12-31
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt572 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor256
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9781478028079

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Preface ixIntroduction. Political Ontology and the Problem of Displacement/Emplacement 1Prelude. Small Stories 33Act I. Uncommoning the Territory of the Common Good (on Being Faithful to the Pluriverse) 59Interlude. Big Stories 96Act II. Being Careful with Atiku, Killing Caribou (the Science Question in Cosmopolitics) 124Postlude. Viably Small Stories for the Displaced 158Acknowledgments 185Notes 187Bibliography 211Index

“Mario Blaser offers a new and vibrant conceptual and political vocabulary to approach the problems of our times in relation to indigeneity, environment, and knowledge. Drawing on anthropology, science and technology studies, and political theory, this book helps us escape colonizing forms of thought and keeps space open for alternative forms of being and living. For Emplacement is a bold invitation built on careful thinking, meticulous consideration of ethnographic worlds, and potent writing.” - Andrea Ballestero, author of (A Future History of Water) “In this impressive and important book, Mario Blaser sharpens the conceptual and political stakes of political ontology. He makes a compelling argument for a political orientation toward the ‘small’ in the face of a politics of the global, universal, and transcendent. This ‘small’ politics would help build a pluriverse consisting of a set of emergent and connected yet divergent collectives. Complex, thoughtful, and provocative, For Emplacement will find a wide readership in anthropology, geography, Latin American studies, development studies, and Indigenous studies.” - Bruce Braun, Professor of Geography, University of Minnesota