For more than fifteen years, Mario Blaser has been involved with
the Yshiro people of the Paraguayan Chaco as they have sought to
maintain their world in the face of conservation and development
programs promoted by the state and various nongovernmental
organizations. In this ethnography of the encounter between
modernizing visions of development, the place-based "life projects"
of the Yshiro, and the agendas of scholars and activists, Blaser
argues for an understanding of the political mobilization of the
Yshiro and other indigenous peoples as part of a struggle to make
the global age hospitable to a "pluriverse" containing multiple
worlds or realities. As he explains, most knowledge about the
Yshiro produced by non-indigenous "experts" has been based on
modern Cartesian dualisms separating subject and object, mind and
body, and nature and culture. Such thinking differs profoundly from
the relational ontology enacted by the Yshiro and other indigenous
peoples. Attentive to people's unique experiences of place and
self, the Yshiro reject universal knowledge claims, unlike Western
modernity, which assumes the existence of a universal reality and
refuses the existence of other ontologies or realities. In
"Storytelling Globalization from the Chaco and Beyond," Blaser
engages in storytelling as a knowledge practice grounded in a
relational ontology and attuned to the ongoing struggle for a
pluriversal globality.
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