pluriversity

English

Etymology 1

Blend of pluriverse +‎ university

Noun

pluriversity (plural pluriversities)

1. 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.
   • 1978, International Cultural Foundation, The search for absolute values in a changing world, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 1989, David Ray Griffin, William A. Beardslee, Joe Holland, Varieties of Postmodern Theology, →ISBN, page 5:

     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.

   • 1995, Ed Block, Ideas for the University, page 77:

     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.

   • 2006, Robert A. Rhoads, Carlos Alberto Torres, The University, State, and Market, →ISBN, page 74:

     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.

2. A multicultural learning environment where one learns from multiple sources of knowledge, such as the scientific, the traditional, and the spiritual.
   • 2006, Angarai Venkataraman Balasubramanian, T. D. Nirmala Devi, Traditional knowledge systems of India and Sri Lanka:

     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?

   • 2012, Kathryn L. Kleypas, James I. McDougall, The American-style University at Large, →ISBN, page 4:

     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.

   • 2015, Marta Araújo, Silvia R. Maeso, Eurocentrism, Racism and Knowledge, →ISBN:

     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'.

   • 2016, Todd LeVasseur, Pramod Parajuli, Norman Wirzba, Religion and Sustainable Agriculture, →ISBN:

     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.

Etymology 2

pluriverse +‎ -ity

Noun

pluriversity (plural pluriversities)

1. Synonym of pluriversality
   • 2009, S. Macrine, P. McLaren, D. Hill, Revolutionizing Pedagogy, →ISBN:

     My defense of a universality of social justice (and socialism) for all—creating the conditions of possibility for freedom from necessity for all—in no way rejects the pluriversity of knowledges.

   • 2013, Julian Go, Postcolonial Sociology, →ISBN, page 179:

     To distance himself from the eurocentric concept of modernity, he introduced the concept of "transmodernity," explaining: "A future transmodern culture [...] assumes that the positive moments of modernity (as evaluated through criteria distinct from the perspective of other ancient cultures)[,] will have a rich pluriversity and would be the fruit of an authentic intercultural dialogue that would require bearing clearly in mind existing asymmetries [,,,]" (2010, p. 14).

   • 2015, Tanya Loughead, Critical University: Moving Higher Education Forward, →ISBN, page vii:

     In the 1980s, when I first started teaching in the academy, many of my colleagues agreed with me that the role of teaching critical citizenship was too conservative, that we needed to move beyond incremental reform and -- following the advice of my mentor Paulo Freire— create multipolar sites, within the university, of popular democracy bolstered by pluriversity and interculturality.