pluriversality

pluriverse +‎ -ality

pluriversality (countable and uncountable, plural pluriversalities)

1. (uncountable) The condition of being pluriversal.
   • 2011, Walter Mignolo, The Darker Side of Western Modernity: Global Futures, Decolonial Options, →ISBN:

     As an antidote, border thinking aims at pluriversality.

   • 2013, Virpi Malin, Jonathan Murphy, Marjo Siltaoja, Getting Things Done, →ISBN, page 281:

     Those conditions of possibility enabled me to move with more intensity from a perspective of universality toward a perspective of pluriversality, from modernity toward transmodernity.

   • 2013, Lynette Shultz, Tania Kajner, Engaged Scholarship: The Politics of Engagement and Disengagement, →ISBN:

     For scholars of engagement the rich space that is created by such a differential movement related to pluriversality suggests opportunities for research based on multiple knowledges reflecting the multiple global forces and options described by Mignolo (see also Shulz, 2012).

2. (countable) A state or situation that is pluriversal.
   • 2012, Yael Ohana, Hendrik Otten, Where Do You Stand?:, →ISBN:

     Secondly, it is important to reassert collective resilience for action to transform and construct a Europe of and for the people, one in which social justice, intense democratic values, inalienable human rights and the recognition of the pluriversalities of human dignity are primary motives for integration.

   • 2016, Christoph Senft -, Contemporary Indian Writing in English between Global Fiction and Transmodern Historiography, →ISBN:

     By highlighting the existence of various different yet converging modernities that are disentangled from specific temporal and geographical setups, the texts suggest that there has never been only one history that can be interpreted and written in one particular way, but a pluriversality of approaches to the past – a pluriversality that has to be critically examined, but can also be joyfully celebrated.

   • 2017, Carol Reid, Jae Major, Global Teaching, →ISBN:

     The three positions described above—color blindness, counting diverse bodies, and enabling pluriversalities—describe different approaches to engaging questions of diversity in higher education, but there is much still to be done.