Grassroots post-modernism : remaking the soil of cultures / Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Esteva, Gustavo

Contributor:

Prakash, Madhu Suri, 1951-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Economic development--Social aspects.

Economic development.

International cooperation--Social aspects.

International cooperation.

Culture conflict.

Marginality, Social.

Civilization, Modern--1950-.

Civilization, Modern.

Developing countries--Civilization--Western influences.

Developing countries.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

223 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed Books ; New York : Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 1998.

Summary:

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 ztheir 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-216) and index.

ISBN:

1856495450

1856495469

OCLC:

37560887