Pluriversale Verschränkungen kosmozentrischer und egozentrischer Ontologien der maseualmej im mexikanischen Cuetzalan

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Abstract

The article summarises advancements of Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of capitalism as a system, based on the ongoing exploitation of non-capitalist economic domains. These theories remain imprisoned in a naturalistic ontology prevailing in the capitalist system. To break up this ontology, and with it a decolonisation of thinking and being, requires the appreciation of other ontologies and their dialogic entanglement (pluriversality), as well as consequent actions. This dialogic entanglement is not just an issue of decolo-nial oriented scientists. The paper also shows how the indigenous population, the maseualmej of the Mexican district of Cuetzalan del Progreso, affected by processes of ongoing primitive accumulation, eludes definitive colonisation by means of pluriversal entanglement of different ontologies.

Original languageGerman
Pages (from-to)65-91
Number of pages27
JournalJournal für Entwicklungspolitik (JEP)
Volume35
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

  • 504017 Cultural anthropology

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