Relationality

Arturo Escobar is Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology Emeritus, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA, and Adjunct Professor of the PhD programs in Design and Creation (Universidad de Caldas, Manizales, Colombia) and in Environmental Sciences (Unversidad del Valle, Cali). His main interests are political ecology, ontological design, and the anthropology of globalization, social movements, and technoscience. He is the author of Designs for the Pluriverse (2018), and is engaged in transition design projects in Colombia. Michal Osterweil is Teaching Associate Professor in Global Studies at the University of North Carolina, USA. She is also a radical homemaker and community actionist. Her main areas of interest are social movements, new theories/imaginaries of social change and the intersection of knowledge production, epistemology and change work. Kriti Sharma is Postdoctoral Scholar in microbial ecology in the division of Geology and Planetary Sciences at the California Institute of Technology, USA. She is the author of Interdependence: Biology and Beyond (2015). Her main interests are microbiology and microbial ecology, philosophy and social sciences of biology, and ontology and metaphysics.

Introduction: Coming Up against the Nonrelational
1. Rethinking and Reweaving the Web of Life: Relationality in Four Dimensions
2. The Epistemological and Political Failures and Promises of Theories of Relationality
3. Sources and practices for Relational Living
4. The Political Activation of Relationality
5. Designing Relationally: Enacting Pluriversal Forms of World-making
Conclusion: Making (a Relational) Reality into a Reality