Pluriversity
from Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive by Achille Mbembe
... at the end of the decolonizing process, we will no longer have a university. We will have a pluriversity.
What is a pluriversity?
A pluriversity is not merely the extension throughout the world of a Eurocentric model presumed to be universal and now being reproduced almost everywhere thanks to commercial internationalism.
By pluriversity, many understand a process of knowledge production that is open to epistemic diversity.
It is a process that does not necessarily abandon the notion of universal knowledge for humanity, but which embraces it via a horizontal strategy of openness to dialogue among different epistemic traditions.
To decolonize the university is therefore to reform it with the aim of creating a less provincial and more open critical cosmopolitan pluriversalism – a task that involves the radical re-founding of our ways of thinking and a transcendence of our disciplinary divisions.Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive[1]
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- ↑ Mbembe, Achille. "Decolonizing Knowledge and the Question of the Archive" (PDF). Retrieved 2022-01-19.
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- Grosfoguel, Ramón; Cohen, James (Winter 2012). "Introduction: From University to Pluriversity: A Decolonial Approach to the Present Crisis of Western Universities". Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge 10 (1). https://scholarworks.umb.edu/humanarchitecture/vol10/iss1/2/. Retrieved 2022-01-19.