Plurivers

Taken serious, pluriversal cannot mean just pluriversal according to a variety of humans. The commitment needs to be agnostic to the mechanisms of world-making.

Examples

  • The Parliament of Things
  • The Council of All Beings
  • Transdisciplinary Field Labs1
  • Embassy of the North Sea, Embassy of the Baltic Sea

References

Latimer, Joanna, and Mara Miele. “Naturecultures? Science, Affect and the Non-Human.” Theory, Culture and Society 30, no. 7/8 (2013): 5–31. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263276413502088.

Reiter, Bernd, ed. Constructing the Pluriverse: The Geopolitics of Knowledge. Durham: Duke University Press, 2018.

Savransky, Martin. Around the Day in Eighty Worlds: Politics of the Pluriverse. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Westerlaken, Michelle. “What Is the Opposite of Speciesism? On Relational Care Ethics and Illustrating Multi-Species-Isms.” International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 41, no. 3/4 (2020): 522–40. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-09-2019-0176.

Notes


Footnotes

  1. Blanco-Wells, Gustavo, and Marcela Márquez-García. “The Pluriverses of Conservation: Exploring Modes of Coexistence and More-than-Human Care for Alternative Socioecological Futures.” Environmental Science & Policy 175 (2026): 104277. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2025.104277.˄


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