ABSTRACT
While in the 1990s the ‘end of history’ or the global triumph of liberalism’s ‘one world world’ may have seemed plausible, have led to an almost universal certainty that things are coming apart. Resilience infrastructure must therefore be understood as the substrate of a liberal regime promising neither redemption nor progress but only survival of its own existing conditions amidst their ongoing breakdown. Pluriverse thinking stems from efforts in the 1990s by diverse scholars based primarily in decolonial Latin American studies, bridging science and technology studies, indigenous studies, and political ecology, around the project of ‘political ontology’ and a ‘refusal to be captured by modernity’. The pluriverse concept however has taken on particular purchase in association with the Anthropocene, which authors see as naming the crisis of hegemony of liberal modernity’s ontological assumptions, where worlds and ontological conflict have ‘unprecedented visibility and potentiality’.
