Indomitable Others and Liberal Violences

Marcos S. Scauso is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, US.

"This collection of essays marks a vital intervention in the expanding conversation on the pluriverse, bringing together voices that span from early contributors to the most recent and provocative interventions. In contrast to its increasingly depoliticised deployment, this book reclaims the pluriverse as a deeply political and normative project, reinserting its emancipatory potential into global conversations. This is an important reading for IR scholars and decolonial theorists: it challenges us to rethink the terms of global coexistence, justice and world-making." Camilo Ardila, Associate Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews.

• Foreword - Mustapha Kamal PashaIntroduction: May it Bloom - Gabriella ColelloPart I: Liberal Violences: Death and Decay1. The Traps of Liberalism’s Many Lies - Laura Sjoberg2. Inclusion for Pluriversality: Toward Another IR Pedagogy - Nancy E. Wright3. Genocide in Myanmar: Citizenship as a Technology of Hetero-/mononormativity - Alyssa Arends 4. Institutionalized State Control of Justice, Violence, and Death - Shauna Gillooly5. Sodomy, Sovereignty, and Empire: The Neoliberal Sexual State in Postcolonial India - Anna M. Agathangelou and Sudeshna Chatterjee6. ‘We’re Going to Reconciliation the Shit Out Of You’: Canadian Liberal Settler Violence and the Possibilities for True Reconciliation - Niiyokamigaabaw Deondre Smiles7. Beyond Dichotomies: State-Making in Iraq, Social Reproduction, and Education - Massarah DawoodConclusion to Part I: Critique and Denunciation - Marcos S. ScausoPart II: Resistances and Other-worldings: Rebirths8. Defending the Divergent Coexistence between Ayllu Communities and the Colonial State in Bolivia: An Ontological Reading of Resistance against Colonial Liberalism - Cristina Rojas9. Resisting the White Imaginary: Learning from Indigenous, Afrocolombian, Black, Raizal, and Rrom Peace Activists in Colombia - María Cárdenas10. Repudiating the ‘Doctrine of Discovery’ - Cecelia Lynch 11. Praying Against Extractivism: Epistemological Humility and the Pluriverse - Elane WestfaulConclusion to Part II: Other-worlding and Resistance - Marcos S. ScausoPart III: Pluriversalizing: Growing Pains and the Complexity of Co-living12. ‘Our Way that was from Before Words Travelled’: Democracy as Liberal Discipline and Pluriversal Connector - Garrett FitzGerald13. Over-coming Liberalism: ‘Care of the Self’ and Ethical Horizons for the Pluriverse - Maggie FitzGerald14. Concluding Thoughts: Denouncing Liberalisms, Worlding Resistances, and Sustaining Tensions for a ‘Weak’ Community in Difference - Marcos S. Scauso