... such nonhuman forms of governance and animistic ontologies can act as a source not only of care and an ecological consciousness but also are capable of exclusion and discrimination. Consequently, the South Asian context provides an important cautionary tale about the blind embrace of animism as the sole savior...

... between Western intellectual anxieties and postcolonial methods and modes of thought. One domain for interrogating the contemporary significance of the work is the call for new ontologies and interpretive humility. This commentary examines these new ontologies through the rethinking of ways that agents...

... distinction means attending to this third domain—the more-than-natural—still banished from our ontological horizons. This is especially important for any consideration of the Anthropocene, since climate crisis affects communities that do not live only in secular worlds nor abide only by secular categories...

...Jennifer Lee Johnson This article examines contemporary ontological conflicts between people who make their living on an island with fish that are considered by fisheries managers to be “commercially extinct” and people who make their living managing “commercially important” fisheries...

... entrenched forms of technocratic authority produced the effect of the environment as both an abstract “good” to be protected and as ontologically “insistent” on protection. While nature seemed to demand the need for infrastructural standards (with which the occupation authorities and objectors attempted...

... strategies of bifurcation problematizing asymmetrical zonings and scale making, thereby redefining the nature and terms of science (itself a naturalized modern knowledge formation) without fantasizing a greater sense of knowing or transcendence from ontological specificities and multiplicities. 204...

... waves of economic integration. This fragmentation is popularly ascribed to be the result of an ontologically inward-looking nature of retrogressive local spaces such as the nations, regions, and communities. It is not coincidental that the sudden rejuvenation of difference on various local scales...

... and politicization of the truth in cultural tradition, or a defense of a single overarching sociocul- Vol. 10.1215/1089201 26, No. 3, 2006 doi tural meaning as both an ontology and a mode of political organization. In this way, and by extension, these discourses...

... to Foucault, so- cal accounts do not always aim at action guiding. cial sciences are born in this incessant oscillation For modern Western philosophy, however, Aristo- between the transcendental and the empirical. tle will be the source for a practical ontology of The conditions of possibility of his...

... Thanks to the posthumanist turn, theoretical work in the humanities and social sciences has been endeavoring for some time to imagine the shared ecologies of varied life-forms (and nonliving forms) with differing ontologies. This has meant going beyond the traditional human subject, the master work...

..., noting that Walter D. Mignolo • The Making and Closing of Eurocentric International Law 193 acting on the basis of the aforesaid ontology gument doesn’t come at the end of the book but in French colonialism created a cast of elites who a few pages...

... of the coronavirus as manifestations of uneven geopolitical relations that kill in the name of freedom or choice requires that we pay attention to the stratification of human and unhuman life transnationally. To point to the disposability of unhuman life in historically and ontologically different contexts...

... This special section's focus is less on disciplinary self-evaluations than the kinds of evidence that operate in knowledge traditions that do not fully share the epistemological and ontological presuppositions of the Western secular academy. 2 The three contributors, Ana Vinea, Junaid Quadri, and myself...

... in the colonial ontology into the conversation, and what is at period is on struggles over Muslim schooling stake — in Quran schools and in my book — is the rather than francophone intellectual history, and production of cultivated modes of being...

...? truth from physics or chemistry, did he posit some Was there a larger shared ontology of truth kind of a loose similarity among entities like “mat- common to both Sir Jagadish and Sir Jadunath? ter,” “energy,” and the “past”? If he did, then do we Did...

... from mentioned, for example, by Djavann’s mainly ern writers use the new tendency whose pri- autobiographical character in How Can One Be mary focus is the ontological distinction. One French? “She was repeatedly sent to the country can find such examples in the writings...

... . Translated by Weinsheimer Joel Marshall Donald G. London : Continuum , 2005 . Ingalls Daniel H. H. , trans. Sanskrit Poetry from Vidyākara’s “Treasury” . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press , 2000 . Jameson Fredric . A Singular Modernity: Essay on the Ontology...

... source. The title of the famous fifth chapter of with is the ability to refuse a Hegelian ontology, Black Skin, White Masks, rendered in the earliest since “every ontology is made unattainable in a col- and most widely known English translation as “The onized and civilized society” (109). Fanon...

... there is a historical ontology of “truth” or if the quest for knowledge is inevitably fractured along geographic and disciplinary lines. ...

... frequently been the Islamic ideology of the Islamic Republic, which discussed — similarly worked to destabilize previ- he is said to have helped found with his writing.2 ously held ontological assumptions and produce Against these historiographical tendencies, I ask new ethical possibilities. Unlike...