de la Cadena / Blaser A World of Many Worlds

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4780-0431-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 232 Seiten

Drawing on indigenous social movements and politics, this volume’s contributors question Western epistemologies, theorize new forms of knowledge production, and critique the presumed divide between nature and culture—all in service of creating a pluriverse: a cosmos composed of many worlds partially connected through divergent political practices.

Autoren/Hrsg.

de la Cadena, Marisol

Blaser, Mario

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Indigene Völker
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Corsín Jiménez 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.