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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... grassroots initiatives for resisting the oppressiveness of modern minorities represents a clear rupture with some of the most fundamental premises of the modern era . In doing so , it leads the way in radically confronting some modern ...
... grassroots initiatives in journals like The Ecologist or Fourth World Review , there are new groups of independent ... grassroots . They tend to operate as " hinges , " connecting the " inside " and the " outside " of the movements . The ...
... grassroots . - — Spheres for the independent action of civil society within modern nations are in fact – although ... grassroots . Furthermore , today's grassroots endeavours are finding new historical opportunities in the era of the ...
Contents
Beyond | 1 |
Interlocutor and Audience | 7 |
Content and Structure of this Book | 14 |
Copyright | |
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Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures Gustavo Esteva,Madhu Suri Prakash Limited preview - 1998 |
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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 |