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 Boatcä 197
11. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodological Research Proposal on the Pluriverse / Hans-Jürgen Burchardt 219
12. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) / Zaid Ahmad 240
13. Anekäntaväda: 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 325

Constructing the Pluriverse

The Geopolitics of Knowledge