Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of Latin American indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals who mobilize to defend their territories from large-scale extraction, Arturo Escobar shows how the key to addressing planetary crises is the creation of the pluriverse—a world of many epistemological and ontological worlds.

Preface to the English Edition  ix
Prologue  xxxv
Acknowledgments  xxxix
Introduction: Another Possible Is Possible  1
1. Theory and the Un/Real: Tools for Rethinking "Reality" and the Possible  13
2. From Below, on the Left, and with the Earth: The Difference that Abya Yala/Afro/Latino América Makes  31
3. The Earth-Form of Life: Nasa Thought and the Limits to the Episteme of Modernity  46
4. Sentipensar with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South  67
5. Notes on Intellectual Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Latin American Social Theory  84
6. Postdevelopment @ 25: On "Being Stuck" and Moving Forward, Sideways, Backward, and Otherwise (a Conversation with Gustavo Esteva)  97
7. Cosmo/Visions of the Colombian Pacific Coast Region and Their Socioenvironmental Implications: Elements for a Dialogue of Cosmo/Visions  120
8. Beyond "Regional Development": A Design Model for Civilizational Transition in the Cauca River Valley, Colombia  136
Notes  159
References  175
Index  185