pluriversity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: pluriversities
Etymology: Blend of pluriverse + university
Senses: examples: text: This inquiry is carried on most effectively through academic specialties. They create the modern pluriversity, and in that pluriversity the unity of knowledge is lost.
ref: 1978, International Cultural Foundation, The search for absolute values in a changing world, →ISBN:
text: Besides these features, Rutler looks forward to a new union of religion and politics, and of theology and science, and thereby to a transformation of the pluriversity back into a university.
ref: 1989, David Ray Griffin, William A. Beardslee, Joe Holland, Varieties of Postmodern Theology, →ISBN, page 5:
text: If the multiversity was a supermarket in which members of the same community browsed for various brands of similar goods, then the pluriversity is like a shopping mall on the outskirts where customers from different parts of town shop for wildly differing specialties in postmodern paternlessness.
ref: 1995, Ed Block, Ideas for the University, page 77:
text: Contrary to the university knowledge described in the preceding paragraph, pluriversity knowledge is a contextual knowledge insofar as the organizing principle of its construction is its application.
ref: 2006, Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, The University, State, and Market, →ISBN, page 74:
glosses: A university, viewed as an institution of tertiary education that is segmented into specialties which do not interact, especially specialties that focus on applications for external organizations.
examples: text: Should and could we move from a university to the pluriversity? Was this to be a strictly secular or non-secular institution? Who would benefit from the pluriversity, with its new forms of knowledge? Was TK only to be the object of study in a pluriversty as it is in universities or also a subject of study with its faculty and students?
ref: 2006, Angarai Venkataraman Balasubramanian, T. D. Nirmala Devi, Traditional knowledge systems of India and Sri Lanka:
text: For that we need instead of a university, a pluriversity. A pluriversity has the responsibility of educating future generations to live not only in pluri-national states, as has been declared, for example, in the constitutions of Bolivia and Ecuador, but also in a pluri-spistemic and pluri-spiritual world.
ref: 2012, Kathryn L. Kleypas, James I. McDougall, The American-style University at Large, →ISBN, page 4:
text: If Kant's and Humboldt's Eurocentred modern racist/sexist epistemic projects became the epistemic foundation of the Westernized university from the late eighteenth century as a result of 300 years of genocide/epistemicide in the world, Enrique Dussel's Transmodernity is the new epistemic foundation of the future decolonial pluriversity, whose knowledge production will be at the service of a world beyond the 'capitalist/patriarchal Wester-centric/Christian-centric modern/colonial world-system'.
ref: 2015, Marta Araújo, Silvia R. Maeso, Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge, →ISBN:
text: My rather upbeat proposal to create a resilient and abundant food system is predicated upon the human species having the capacity to learn. But what kind of learning is required? I propose an idea of pluriversity, a pluriversity for resilience and abundance.
ref: 2016, Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, Norman Wirzba, Religion and Sustainable Agriculture, →ISBN:
glosses: A multicultural learning environment where one learns from multiple sources of knowledge, such as the scientific, the traditional, and the spiritual.