Constructing the Pluriverse

Foreword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity / Walter D. Mignolo ix Introduction / Bernd Reiter 1 Part I. Toward the Pluriverse 1. Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale / Raewyn Connell 19 2. One Planet, Many Sciences / Sandra Harding 39 3. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Rationality: Toward Designs for the Pluriverse / Arturo Escobar 63 4. On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after Decolonization: Dewesternization after the Cold War / Walter D. Mignolo 90 5. Internationalism and Speaking for Others: What Struggling against Neoliberal Globalization Taught Me about Epistemology / Aram Ziai 117 Part II. Other Ontologies 6. Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia's Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse / Ulrich Oslender 137 7. The Griots of West Africa: Oral Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge / Issiaka Ouattara 151 8. Experimenting with Freedom: Gandhi's Political Epistemology / Manu Samnotra 168 9. Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional Arrangements and (De)Colonial Entanglements / Catherine Walsh 184 Part III. Other Sciences and Epistemologies 10. Caribbean Europe: Out of Sight, out of Mind? / Manuela BoatcaÌ 197 11. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodological Research Proposal on the Pluriverse / Hans-Jurgen Burchardt 219 12. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) / Zaid Ahmad 240 13. AnekaÌ ntavaÌ da: The Jaina Epistemology / Venu Mehta 259 Part IV. Rethinking Politics, Democracy, and Markets 14. First People of the Americas: Lessons on Democracy, Citizenship, and Politics / Bernd Reiter 279 15. Iran's Path toward Islamic Reformism: A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse / Eshan Kashfi 298 Conclusion / Bernd Reiter 313 Contributors 319 Index