Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of CulturesTable of Contents Grassroots Post-Modernism : Remaking the Soil of Cultures by Esteva, Gustavo; Prakash, Madhu Suri Terms of Use From the Global to the Local Beyond Neo-Liberalism to the International of Hope Beyond the Self: Regenerating Ourselves Human Rights: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization? People’s Power: Radical Democracy for the Autonomy of their Commons Epilogue: The Grassroots Post-modern Epic Notes Bibliography Index Descriptive content provided by SyndeticsTM, a Bowker service. Summary Grassroots Post-Modernism : Remaking the Soil of Cultures by Esteva, Gustavo; Prakash, Madhu Suri Terms of use This remarkable book draws its inspiration from what its authors describe as the post-modern epic now unfolding at the grassroots. It portrays the ways in which the world’s social majorities are now escaping from the monoculture of a single global civilization and regenerating their own cultural and natural spaces. In so doing, they are challenging the three sacred cows of modernity--the idea, entrenched in globalization, that there is only one, universally valid way of understanding social reality; the exclusive and general validity of Western-defined notions of human; and the notion of the self-sufficient individual, as opposed to people-in-community, which has grotesquely transformed how we see the human condition. This is quite simply, a book which will transform how one sees the world--North and South. Descriptive content provided by SyndeticsTM, a Bowker service. |
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Contents
Beyond | 1 |
Interlocutor and Audience | 7 |
Content and Structure of this Book | 14 |
Global Thinking is Impossible | 22 |
Clothing the Emperor | 28 |
Settling in a Pluriverse | 36 |
The International of Hope | 44 |
Regenerating Ourselves | 50 |
Global Platforms and Universal Rights | 117 |
Celebrating the Pluriverse | 125 |
The Bottom Line | 132 |
The Current Threat | 138 |
Radical Democracy for | 152 |
The Grassroots Postmodern Epic | 192 |
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