Grassroots postmodernism : remaking the soil of cultures

Authors:Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash

Summary:Portraying the ways in which the world's social majorities are now escaping from the monoculture of a single global civilization, this text explores the regeneration of their cultural and natural spaces and their struggle against the rigid concepts of modernity.

Print Book, English, 1998

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Publisher: Zed, London, 1998

Physical Description:223 s

ISBN:

9781856495455, 9781856495462, 1856495450, 1856495469

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:185672517

Subjects:

Community Philosophy

Culture Philosophy

Individualism Philosophy

Postmodernism Social aspects

Postmodernism sociala aspekter

Contents:

Contents1. From the Global to the Local2. Beyond Neo-Liberalism to the International of Hope3. Beyond the Self: Regenerating Ourselves.4. Human Rights: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization?5. People's Power: Radical Democracy for the Autonomy of their Commons6. Epilogue: The Grassroots Post-modern Epic