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date: 2026-04-02
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source: "https://plurivers.net/revue-plurivers-1/navigation-guide.html"
title: Navigation guide
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While each of the contributions that follow can be read in any order and
stand-alone, we invite you to take a moment to read this page in order
to orient yourself in this pluriverse.

In the spirit of pluriversality, this journal comprises a variety of
contributions in a range of languages. It is literally plurilingual,
with contributions in French, English, Spanish, and Creole (and
hopefully more languages to come in future issues). Due, however, to the
global hegemony of English, French and Spanish, this means that these
Latin-based languages--Latin being the basis of hegemonic globalisation,
as well as the classification/taxonomy and commercial­isation of
biological matter--will tend to overrule others unless radical editorial
decisions are taken to avoid this. The balance of languages will change
from issue to issue, and we hope in future iterations to increase the
number of pages in less globally dominant tongues. But this also leads
to an editorial conundrum that we will continue to tackle: how on the
one hand to ensure wide readership and accessibility while at the same
time decentring linguistic expression (i.e., decolonising language), and
with this epistemologies (what Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o famously
spoke about in his 1986 book, *Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of
Language* in African Literature, and many others have also taken up from
all corners of the pluriverse)? With the plurilinguistic nature of our
journal, we wanted also to share one of the most common experiences of
life on Earth, that of living, breathing, writing (as Édouard Glissant
famously noted), eating, moving, and loving surrounded by a plural­ity of
languages. We felt that hiding this plurality in a monolinguistic
journal would not be genuine in our attempt to partake in the many
worlds that may compose a common world.

One way in which we have attempted to deal with this is by provid­­ing
translations of all of the contributions on the journal's accomp­anying
website: www.plurivers.online. This provision of translations is
particularly important for the editorial introductions, which we have
written in French due to the necessity to widen the debate on
"decolonial ecologies" in the many French-speaking worlds, but which we
wish to be engaged with by readers operating in other languages for them
to appreciate the journal's framing more broadly, along with the special
focus of each issue.