Grassroots Postmodernism : Remaking the Soil of Cultures Paperback
by Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash
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This text draws its inspiration from what its authors describe as the post-modern epic 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.
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- Format:Paperback
- Pages:256 pages, notes, bibliography, index
- Publisher:Zed Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/01/1998
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- ISBN:9781856495462
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:256 pages, notes, bibliography, index
- Publisher:Zed Books Ltd
- Publication Date:01/01/1998
- Category:
- ISBN:9781856495462