Pluriversale Verschränkungen kosmozentrischer und egozentrischer Ontologien der maseualmej im mexikanischen Cuetzalan

Author(s)

Patricia Zuckerhut

Abstract

The article summarises advancements of Rosa Luxemburg’s analysis of capitalism as a system, based on the ongoing exploitation of non-capitalist economic domains. These theories remain imprisoned in a naturalistic ontology prevailing in the capitalist system. To break up this ontology, and with it a decolonisation of thinking and being, requires the appreciation of other ontologies and their dialogic entanglement (pluriversality), as well as consequent actions. This dialogic entanglement is not just an issue of decolo-nial oriented scientists. The paper also shows how the indigenous population, the maseualmej of the Mexican district of Cuetzalan del Progreso, affected by processes of ongoing primitive accumulation, eludes definitive colonisation by means of pluriversal entanglement of different ontologies.

Organisation(s)

Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology

Journal

Journal für Entwicklungspolitik (JEP)

Volume

35

Pages

65-91

No. of pages

27

ISSN

0258-2384

DOI

https://doi.org/10.20446/JEP-2414-3197-35-1-65

Publication date

2018

Peer reviewed

Yes

Austrian Fields of Science 2012

504017 Cultural anthropology

Keywords

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Social Sciences(all)

Portal url

https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/pluriversale-verschrankungen-kosmozentrischer-und-egozentrischer-ontologien-der-maseualmej-im-mexikanischen-cuetzalan(d3525980-0c36-4714-b473-5a9d2969869d).html