The Real and the Possible
by Arturo Escobar
- Author(s)
- Arturo Escobar
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University, 2020
- Scope
- 232 Pages, illustrated, 23 cm.
- ISBN
- 9781478008460
Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals and on current Latin American theoretical-political debates, Escobar chronicles the social movements mobilizing to defend their territories from large-scale extractive operations in the region. He shows how these movements engage in an ontological politics aimed at bringing about the pluriverse—a world consisting of many worlds, each with its own ontological and epistemic grounding. Such a politics, Escobar contends, is key to crafting myriad world-making stories telling of different possible futures that could bring about the profound social transformations that are needed to address planetary crises.
- Keywords
- post anthropocene , politics
- Location
- Cabinet 11 - 5: Kritiek op het Neoliberalisme
- Remarks
- Includes notes, references, index
