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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword. On Pluriversality and Multipolarity ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. Toward the Pluriverse
6. 1. Meeting at the Edge of Fear: Theory on a World Scale 19
7. 2. One Planet, Many Sciences 39
8. 3. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Relationality: Toward Designs for the Pluriverse 63
9. 4. On Pluriversality and Multipolar World Order: Decoloniality after Decolonization; Dewesternization after the Cold War 90
10. 5. Internationalism and Speaking for Others: What Struggling against Neoliberal Globalization Taught Me about Epistemology 117
11. Part II. Other Ontologies
12. 6. Local Aquatic Epistemologies among Black Communities on Colombia’s Pacific Coast and the Pluriverse 137
13. 7. The Griots of West Africa: Oral Tradition and Ancestral Knowledge 151
14. 8. Experimenting with Freedom: Gandhi’s Political Epistemology 168
15. 9. Development as Buen Vivir: Institutional Arrangements and (De)Colonial Entanglements 184
16. Part III. Other Sciences and Epistemologies
17. 10. Caribbean Europe: Out of Sight, out of Mind? 197
18. 11. How Spinoza and Elias Help to Decenter Our Understanding of Development: A Methodical Research Proposal on the Pluriverse 219
19. 12. In Quest of Indigenous Epistemology: Some Notes on a Fourteenth-Century Muslim Scholar, Ibn Khaldun (1332–1406) 240
20. 13. Anekāntavāda: The Jaina Epistemology 259
21. Part IV. Rethinking Politics, Democracy, and Markets
22. 14. First People of the Americas: Lessons on Democracy, Citizenship, and Politics 279
23. 15. Iran’s Path toward Islamic Reformism: A Study of Religious Intellectual Discourse 298
24. Conclusion 313
25. Contributors 319
26. Index 325