Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria and Alberto Acosta.
“Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary” is a stimulating collection of over 100 essays on transformative alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. In the post-development imagination, ‘development’ would no longer be the organizing principle of social life. The book presents worldviews and practices from around the world in a collective search for an ecologically wise and socially just world. It also offers critical essays on a number of false solutions that those in power are proposing in an attempt to ‘greenwash’ development. The 120+ contributors to the volume include activists, academics, and practitioners, with a wealth of experience in their respective fields of engagement.
What has been missing is a broad transcultural compilation of concrete concepts, worldviews and practices from around the world, challenging the modernist ontology of universalism in favour of a multiplicity of possible worlds. This is what it means to call for a pluriverse.
The book follows the structure of an encyclopedia, with short 1000-word entries for each of the key terms. The entries are written by invited authors. In the list of authors you might recognize Vandana Shiva, Serge Latouche, Wolfgang Sachs, Silvia Federici, Nnimmo Bassey, Gustavo Esteva, Katherine Gibson, Maristella Svampa and many more.
Forthcoming, 2018
Publisher: Authors Up Front (self-publishing platform for the creative community; Delhi, India). See: http://authorsupfront.com/
License: Creative Commons
Download here the Cover and Table of contents.
May I ask when will this new book being published?
Dear Glenna,
The book will be published late 2018.
Are there already news regarding the publication date? I am waiting eagerly.
Hi Julia,
The book will be published by the end of 2018.
We are done with copy-editing, and we will soon receive the final proofs.
Thanks for your interest, and patience! 🙂
Best,
fede
NB: More info here: http://thepluriverse.org
Hi Federico, first of all I would like to say that I am eagerly awaiting for the publication of this book. Second, I recently found news only that the book will be published by Columbia University Press in July next year (2019)? , Is this correct?
https://cup.columbia.edu/book/pluriverse/9788193732984
Hi Franco,
the book will be published in early 2019, by Authors Up Front in India, and by CUP elsewhere. I hope it will be before July 2019, but can’t give you an exact date yet.
Thanks for your interest
Best,
f