Mario Blaser proposes a new lens for combatting the momentous challenges the world currently faces, arguing that solutions to major crises should be based in the specificities of the places they emerge from rather than a single approach that only exacerbates the problem.

Preface  ix
Introduction. Political Ontology and the Problem of Displacement/Emplacement  1
Prelude. Small Stories  33
Act I. Uncommoning the Territory of the Common Good (on Being Faithful to the Pluriverse)  59
Interlude. Big Stories  96
Act II. Being Careful with Atiku, Killing Caribou (the Science Question in Cosmopolitics)  124
Postlude. Viably Small Stories for the Displaced  158
Acknowledgments  185
Notes  187
Bibliography  211
Index