Cosmopolitics and Justapositionin the Proposal of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

Authors

  • Salvador Schavelzon Universidade Federal de São Paulo. Dirección postal: Rua Galeno de Almeida, 107/81A, Pinheiros, São Paulo, SP, CEP 05410030

Abstract

In this paper I analyze the plurinationality proposal as a kind of State control that seeksto self-regulate its own sovereignty, allowing autonomy and pluralism as guiding principles. Reviewing recent literature related to the so called ontological turn in anthropology, I address the case of constitutional proposals of indigenous people and peasants in Bolivia. From there, I realize the need to articulate approaches that are based on the incommensurability of worlds and ontologies to those developed in scenarios of juxtaposition and combination of difference.

Keywords:

Ontologies, Cosmopolitics, Plurinationality, Bolivia, Constitution