Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change) - Softcover

Esteva, Gustavo; Prakash, Madhu Suri

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9781856495462: Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change)

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ISBN 10: 1856495469 ISBN 13: 9781856495462

Publisher: Zed Books, 1998

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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 civilization and regenerating their own cultural and natural spaces. In so doing, they are challenging the three sacred cows of modernity--the idea, entrenched in globalization, 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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About the Author:

Gustavo Esteva is one of Latin America’s leading critics of the development paradigm and is a key figure in the NGO world.

Madhu Suri Prakash is Professor of Education at Penn State University.

Review:

'Beyond its definite 'No' to the Global Project, this book takes a stimulating glance at the renewed life of social majorities and offers good reasons for a common hope.' - Gilbert Rist ''Grassroots Postmodernism' is daring in its thesis that the real postmodernists are to be found among the Zapotecos and Rajasthanis of the majority world. It is a hard-hitting in its attacks against progressive commonplaces, like global responsibility, human rights, individual independence, and democracy. And it is eye-opening in its illustrations how common people, amidst the rubbles of the development epoch, stitch their cultural fabric together and unwittingly move beyond the impasse of modernity' - Wolfgang Sachs, Wuppertal Institute

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