CENTRE for LATIN AMERICAN
RESEARCH and DOCUMENTATION

In the past two decades, Latin American academics and activists have adopted the concept of the pluriverse to challenge colonialism and capitalism, and advocate instead for the recognition of ontologies shaped by relational visions of life. Some of the questions raised by this pluriversal project are not exactly new. Already during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, people on both sides of the Atlantic were grappling with the challenge of having to adapt the models they had traditionally used to think about, represent, and perform their worlds.