A new review of the first book by our former postdoctoral researcher Didier Zuñiga (University of Alberta), entitled Pluralist Politics, Relational Worlds: Vulnerability and Care of the Earth (University of Toronto Press, 2023), has been published by Jean-Paul Gagnon in the journal Political Theory.

As Jean Paul Gagnon reports, Zúñiga shows how mainstream liberal theory and contemporary democratic practice do not engage with knowledges that differ from that which is conventional and hegemonic in our sciences today—a common sense that is of European imperial and notably male descent. Zuñiga defends this thesis by showing how “reasonableness” and capitalist individualism, core concepts for liberalism, have effectively cut from view Indigenous peoples, differently abled peoples, nonhumans, and future generations.

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