LEADER 05149nam 22007333u 450 001 9910458740303321 005 20210112002854.0 010 $a1-78360-183-3 035 $a(CKB)2550000001340924 035 $a(EBL)1758717 035 $a(OCoLC)886112227 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001339716 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11735769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339716 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11355599 035 $a(PQKB)11335471 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1758717 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001340924 100 $a20161010d2014|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGrassroots Post-modernism$b[electronic resource] $eRemaking the Soil of Cultures 205 $a2nd ed. 210 $aLondon $cZed Books$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (250 p.) 225 1 $acritique influence change 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78360-182-5 311 $a1-322-02383-2 327 $aFront Cover; critique influence change; About the Authors; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword; Preface to the critique influence change edition: Pathways to Commoning; Commoning: marginalizing the marginalizers; Ya basta! Enough!; No epilogue; Democracy is dead. Long live democracy; A new, very old, social subject; Every day, everywhere; 1 Grassroots Post-modernism: Beyond the Individual Self, Human Rights and Development; Grassroots post-modernism: An oxymoron?; Peoples beyond modernity: sagas of resistance and liberation; David and Goliath; Interlocutor and audience 327 $aBeyond the three sacred cowsWho are ""the people""?; Content and structure of this book; Notes; 2 From Global to Local: Beyond Neoliberalism to the International of Hope; Global thinking is impossible; The wisdom of thinking small; Downsizing to human scale; Escaping parochialism; Clothing the emperor; The power of thinking and acting locally; Non-provincial localism: forging human solidarities; Settling in a pluriverse; Beyond the nation-state; Beyond the global neoliberalism: the international of hope; Notes; 3 Beyond the Individual Self: Regenerating Ourselves; Dis-membering; Re-membering 327 $aRemaking the soil of culturesCommunal memory: remembering to escape dis-membering; Who am I? From calling card to knots in nets; Return and re-membership: regenerating soil cultures; From tolerance to hospitality; Beyond waste: composting, remaking communal soil; Hospitality abused: demarcating post-modern limits; Notes; 4 Human Rights: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization?; Human rights universalized: liberation or abuse?; Gandhi: liberation without modern states or human rights; From Beijing: global platforms and universal rights; Moral progress or aberrations?; Celebrating the pluriverse 327 $aTorture and violence: the bottom lineThe kitsch of human rights: the last moral resort for recolonization?; The current threat; Beyond the violence of human rights; Towards new intercultural dialogues; Notes; 5 People's Power: Radical Democracy for the Autonomy of their Commons; Democracy today: subversive or dead?; The rise and fall of democracy; Radical democracy; Like the shade of a tree; Notes; 6 Epilogue: The Grassroots Post-modern Epic; No new truths, reopening our horizons; Regenerating public virtues; Notes; Bibliography; Index; Back cover 330 $aWith the publication of this remarkable book in 1998, Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash instigated a complete epistemological rupture. Grassroots Post-modernism attacks the three sacred cows of modernity: global thinking, the universality of human rights and the self-sufficient individual. Rejecting the constructs of development in all its forms, Esteva and Prakash argue that even alternative development prescriptions deprive the people of control over their own lives, shifting this control to bureaucrats, technocrats and educators. Rather than presuming that human progress fits a predeter 410 0$acritique influence change 606 $aCivilization, Modern -- 1950- 606 $aCulture conflict 606 $aDeveloping countries -- Civilization -- Western influences 606 $aEconomic development -- Social aspects 606 $aInternational cooperation -- Social aspects 606 $aHistory & Archaeology$2HILCC 606 $aHistory - General$2HILCC 608 $aElectronic books. 615 4$aCivilization, Modern -- 1950-. 615 4$aCulture conflict. 615 4$aDeveloping countries -- Civilization -- Western influences. 615 4$aEconomic development -- Social aspects. 615 4$aInternational cooperation -- Social aspects. 615 7$aHistory & Archaeology 615 7$aHistory - General 676 $a909.82 700 $aEsteva$b Gustavo$0887084 701 $aPrakash$b Madhu Suri$0887085 701 $aShiva$b Vandana$0129103 801 0$bAU-PeEL 801 1$bAU-PeEL 801 2$bAU-PeEL 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910458740303321 996 $aGrassroots Post-modernism$91981003 997 $aUNINA