The singular role of Shabkar in the development of the idea of Tibet Shabkar (1781-1851), the "Singer of the Land of Snows," was a renowned yogi and poet who, through his autobiography and songs, developed a vision of Tibet as a Buddhist "imagined community." By incorporating vernacular literature, providing a narrative mapping of the Tibetan ......
This book provides an in-depth reflection on decolonial pluriversalim as an alternative way of thinking, living, producing culture, arts, aesthetics, as well as experiencing and theorizing political activisms, religion, education and feminisms. It seeks to go beyond the postcolonial critique of eurocentrism and propose to explore how decolonial ......
Post-Western Approaches to Critical Human Knowledge
The book proposes a new epistemological and methodological approach to concept formation across human and natural sciences, beyond Eurocentrism and specism. It elaborates a method enabling global epistemics to cope with multiplex challenges coming from geohistorical as well as epistemological standpoints whose methodological potential remains ......
After investigating the relevant evidence, what should a rational person believe about the existence of God and his nature? The first task is to examine evidence from natural religion, that is, from science and human observation. The inductive evidence indicates overwhelming probability intelligent beings caused the Universe and life to exist. ......
Invisible Labour in Modern Science is about the people who are concealed, eclipsed, or anonymised in accounts of scientific research. Many scientific workers--including translators, activists, archivists, technicians, curators, and ethics review boards--are absent in publications and omitted from stories of discovery. Scientific reports are often ......
A Balanced Epistemological Orientation for the Social Sciences challenges social researchers to rethink the epistemological assumptions grounding their work. It reviews the strengths and weaknesses of four salient epistemological orientations in the field - positivism, relativism, interpretivism, and intersubjectivism - to identify the ......
For the first time, this book brings social and historical epistemology into systematic conversation with research on land. How can we know land and understand its diverse meanings around the world and throughout history? In search of new ways in which land can be known, an interdisciplinary group of experts in this book demonstrates that not only ......
A Critique of Deconstruction from a Nietzschean Perspective
This book presents a critique of Derrida from a Nietzschean perspective. Questioning the often-advertised association between Nietzsche and Derrida, it focuses instead on important differences and incompatibilities between Nietzsche's naturalistic paradigm and Derrida's textual paradigm. Peter Bornedal argues that Nietzsche's position points us ......
This book aims to thoroughly examine noise's conceptual potencies and explore and amplify its epistemic consequences. The author explores the prospect of different "contextures" of a present made volatile by noise. In a moment when our species exhibits the capacity of global-scale coordination and the design of robust, adaptable social systems, we ......
