Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures

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Palgrave Macmillan, 1998 - Business & Economics - 223 pages

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 civilisation and regenerating their own cultural and natural spaces. In so doing, they are challenging the three sacred cows of modernity - the idea, entrenched in globalisation, 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.

Winner of the AESA (American Educational Studies Ass) Critics' Choice Award

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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
42
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
Bibliography
208
Index
217

The Trojan Horse
110

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About the author (1998)

Gustavo Esteva is an author and grassroots activist who collaborates with the Universidad de la Tierra, Mexico, and other organizations around the world.