02928nam 22004575 450 99664784270331620250705110033.09781478094166147809416810.1515/9781478094166(CKB)5860000000552824(DE-B1597)730694(DE-B1597)9781478094166(ODN)ODN0011383117(EXLCZ)99586000000055282420250222h20252025 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFor Emplacement Political Ontology in Two Acts /Mario Blaser2025Durham : Duke University Press, [2025]20251 online resource (256 p.)9781478028079 1478028076 Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Political Ontology and the Problem of Displacement/Emplacement -- Prelude: Small Stories -- Act I Uncommoning the Territory of the Common Good (On Being Faithful to the Pluriverse) -- Interlude: Big Stories -- Act II Being Careful with Atiku, Killing Caribou (The Science Question in Cosmopolitics) -- Postlude: Viably Small Stories for the Displaced -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn For Emplacement, Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for contending with the momentous challenges facing the world, from anthropogenic climate change to rampant socioeconomic inequalities to the rise of neofascism. Blaser shows that the prevalent solutions to these problems—which often depend on intensifying globalization, technological development, and extractivism—only deepen these crises. Effectively addressing these issues, he suggests, might require grounding our ways of being in the specificities of place. Drawing on decades of ethnographic experience in South America and the Canadian subarctic, and engaging with material semiotics, Blaser recasts the fundamental political question of how to live together well as a cosmopolitical one: how to become emplaced with others, in divergence. Ultimately, he presents a political ontology where visions of the good life oriented to the specificities of place guide us through the promises and challenges that a journey toward emplacement holds.POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-ColonialismbisacshPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism.POL033000POL045000SOC008050bisacshBlaser Mario, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1799593Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canadafndhttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/fndDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996647842703316For Emplacement4343946UNISA