Gustavo Esteva

Grassroots Postmodernism

Remaking the Soil of Cultures

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With the publication of this remarkable book in 1998, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash instigated a complete epistemological rupture.Grassroots Post-modernism attacks the three sacred cows of modernity: global thinking, the universality of human rights and the self-sufficient individual. Rejecting the constructs of development in all its forms, Esteva and Prakash argue that even alternative development prescriptions deprive the people of control over their own lives, shifting this control to bureaucrats, technocrats and educators. Rather than presuming that human progress fits a predetermined mould, leading towards an increasing homogeni… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Prakash, Madhu Suri

ISBN: 978-1-78360-184-4
EAN: 9781783601844
Produktnummer: 17020657
Verlag: Zed Books
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
Seitenangabe: 248 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 594 KB
Auflage: 2. Auflage

Über den Autor

Gustavo Esteva is one of Latin America's leading critics of the development paradigm. An author of more than thirty books, he was advisor to the Zapatistas for their negotiations with the government in 1996 and is the founder of Universidad de la Tierra in the Mexican city of Oaxaca.Madhu Suri Prakash is a philosopher of education at Penn State University.