Pluriverse

In opposition to an abstract universalism, anthropologist Barbara Glowczewski speaks of the “pluriverse”. The term first appeared in 1909, used by the author William James to discredit the idea of a single global reality. Latin American decolonial researchers have used the term to introduce an alternative to a Eurocentric, conquering, capitalist worldview. Thus, the Zapatistas, a revolutionary movement in Mexico, honour “a world made of a multitude of worlds”.

 

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