For Emplacement: Political Ontology in Two Acts

by Blaser, Mario
ISBN: 9781478031291
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In 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 towards emplacement holds.
  • Format: TradePaperback
  • Author: Blaser, Mario
  • ISBN: 9781478031291
  • Condition: New
  • Number Of Pages: 280
  • Publication Year: 2025
Language: English