Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of CulturesThis 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. |
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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 |
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Radical Media: Rebellious Communication and Social Movements John D. H. Downing,John Downing No preview available - 2001 |
International Civil Society: Social Movements in World Politics Alejandro Colás No preview available - 2002 |