Finally, a brief comment about how Indigenous peoples understand boundaries and their practices of boundary making. This is such a complex question, that I only make some tentative remarks. One could re-read exemplary ethnographies of the past in this light. It is important to dispel, as you suggest, the romantic idea that all Indigenous peoples... See more

The most well-known definition of the pluriverse is the Zapatista notion of ‘a world where many worlds fit’, or, as Marisol de la Cadena and Mario Blaser put it, ‘a world of many worlds’.

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physicist David Bohm’s notion of the ‘unbroken wholeness’ of the universe – the universe as the common ground from which everything arises, including matter, life and consciousness.

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David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order .London: Routledge, 1980, 17.

Humans tend to perceive a given order, instead of comprehending the totality of what is as... See more

The southern African concept of Ubuntu – I am because you are, I exist because everything else exists – is becoming a popular metaphor to convey the sense of relationality.