Andean Entifications: Pachamamaq Ajayun

Foregrounds recents discussions on the re-ontologization the notion of socionature as a way of critiquing modern thought and practice, which subverted the original hylozoism of Andean peoples in South America

Co-Creating Commons with Earth Others: Decolonizing the Mastery of Nature

In this article, I examine the onto-epistemological process of colonization that has led to the industrial revolution and the western modern way of exploiting an insentient, inert and mechanical nature. I propose that it is only through a non-anthropocentric, non-hierarchical, and reciprocal co-animation between humans and earth others that we can decolonize the master’s story of nature (as well as of society) and thus be able to create true commons

5. Reanimating the World

Indigenous Amazonian peoples have been able to achieve results in the field of agriculture and healing that often surpass what modern humanity has been able to achieve. Given the centrality of shamanism to Indigenous Amazonian people — with its ability to access knowledge through permeable, non-rational consciousness — we are encouraged to recognize that there are other modalities of cognition, in addition to the analytic and rational mind which focus with laser precision on some well-bounded..

Co-Creating Commons with Earth Others: Decolonizing the Mastery of Nature

In this article, I examine the onto-epistemological process of colonization that has led to the industrial revolution and the western modern way of exploiting an insentient, inert and mechanical nature. I propose that it is only through a non-anthropocentric, non-hierarchical, and reciprocal co-animation between humans and earth others that we can decolonize the master’s story of nature (as well as of society) and thus be able to create true commons

The Spirit of regeneration : Andean culture confronting Western notions of development /

Includes bibliographical references and index