Grassroots Postmodernism: 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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Remaking the Soil of Cultures Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash. ' Beyond its definite " No " to the Global Project , this book takes a stimulating glance at the renewed life of social majorities ... GUSTAVO ESTEVA is one of Latin America's.
Remaking the Soil of Cultures Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash. ABOUT THE AUTHORS GUSTAVO ESTEVA is one of Latin America's most brilliant intellectuals and a leading critic of the development paradigm . Active in his own country ...
... Gustavo Esteva ( 1994a , 1994b ) . Also see Autonomedia ( 1994 ) . For analyses of other important local movements , see Esteva and Prakash ( 1992 ) ; The Ecologist ( 1993 ) . 12. Even if the regime does not recognize it , publicly or ...
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Interlocutor and Audience | 7 |
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Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures Gustavo Esteva,Madhu Suri Prakash Limited preview - 1998 |
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