Comments on: Designs for the Pluriverse — [book review] /2018/08/27/designs-for-the-pluriverse-book-review/ Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:25:11 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 By: Sebastián Arana /2018/08/27/designs-for-the-pluriverse-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1193 Sun, 16 Sep 2018 19:25:11 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=1564#comment-1193 Thank you for reviewing this. I was not aware Dr. Escobar had published a new book, and I look forward to learning more about it.

]]> By: Robert A. Johnson /2018/08/27/designs-for-the-pluriverse-book-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1140 Fri, 31 Aug 2018 13:25:56 +0000 https://anthrodendum.org/?p=1564#comment-1140 I just returned from a religious conference in Tanzania. Unlike the US, the major religious organizations in Tanzania are united in their efforts to discuss and address climate change.

Thus, I visited a Christian community in the central rural highlands that has installed a water well for the nearby village. Among his many goals of the well, the engineer who directed the project (a hired leader of the church) believes that the modern well will help him teach local livestock herders how to plant trees and grasses to replenish tracks of land deforested by the migration of their animals searching for water in dried river beds. The faith-based engineer believes that a community access, solar-powered water well – modernity – is a significant instrument for helping migratory herders return to “traditional” horticultural practices that allowed their ancestors to thrive along with the land.

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