Escobar, Arturo (2020), Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible

Abstract

“We must sentipensar (feel-think) new notions about what is real and thus what is possible” (p. 2). Criticizing conventional science and modernist politics, the Colombian-American anthropologist Arturo Escobar’s latest work, Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible, proposes opening up a new perspective on reality and possibility. Published by Duke University Press (DUP) in 2020, Pluriversal Politics elaborates on the concept of “the Pluriverse” – “a world where many worlds fit” (p. 9)...