Cosmopolitics and Environmental History: Towards a Multinatural Approach

Abstract

How can we tell environmental histories/stories where other worlds have a place? This paper considers the value of cosmopolitics and its possibilities for building a multinatural environmental history. Throughout the paper, we try a cosmopolitical approach to navigating indigenous historical worlds. To do so, we mobilised materials from the Lake Pátzcuaro region, an indigenous region in west-central Mexico, whose environmental history has been the subject of debate, examining the effects that acknowledging the plurality of worlds has for understanding the consequences of our knowledge practices and for creating different ways of relating to other worlds.