Indomitable Others and Liberal Violences

“Indomitable others skillfully maps the myriad weavings of refusals and relations blooming in the ruins of liberalism, summoning us to the emergent pluriverse.” Arturo Escobar, author of Pluriversal Politics (2020) and co-author of Relationality: An Emergent Politics of Life Beyond the Human (2024).“The breadth of critiques, positionalities and alternative worldings offered in this book to unleash the restorative potential of pluriversality amidst the (liberal) compost is simply stunning.” Arlene B. Tickner, Independent Scholar, Colombian Ambassador At-Large for Gender Issues and Feminist Global Policy“For those of us with one foot still in modernity, the essays in Indomitable Others prove at once humbling, disturbing, and hopeful, sometimes puzzling, and, ultimately, compelling.” David Blaney, G. Theodore Mitau Professor of Political Science (Emeritus), Macalester College“This collection of essays marks a vital intervention in the expanding conversation on the pluriverse, bringing together voices that span from early contributors to the most recent and provocative interventions. In contrast to its increasingly depoliticised deployment, this book reclaims the pluriverse as a deeply political and normative project, reinserting its emancipatory potential into global conversations. This is an important reading for IR scholars and decolonial theorists: it challenges us to rethink the terms of global coexistence, justice and world-making.” Camilo Ardila, Associate Lecturer, School of International Relations, University of St Andrews.“Unveiling worlds that survive liberalisms violence, Indomitable Others offers a timely and urgent contribution to the project of building a pluriverse.” Robin Dunford, University of Brighton

Marcos S. Scauso is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, US.