Description
This panel begins with the notion of a pluriverse – a world of many worlds – and interrogates its potential for re-shaping how we think, teach and practice international relations. By foregrounding ontological multiplicity and the radical interdependence of plural realities, it highlights diverse ways of knowing and forms of being that are frequently marginalized, invisibilized, or erased by dominant epistemological frameworks. In doing so, the panel invites us to engage with knowledge practices both inside and outside the discipline, framing these as ethical and political relationships to pasts, presents, and possible futures. Such engagement opens pathways to generate new forms of thought and action that are oriented toward anticolonial critique and (self-)transformation. Methodologies of collective writing, critical reading and reading-through, the reflexive composition of a textbook and negotiations of “pluriversal diplomacies” help us reimagine and connect with what care, belonging, struggle, solidarity, critique, collaborative research or resistance might mean in both local and global contexts.
