Nothing to lose but our fear / / Fiona Jeffries ; in conversation with Lydia Cacho [and eight others]

• Autore: Esteva Gustavo
• Pubblicazione: London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014; [London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021
• Edizione: 2nd ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 p.)
• Disciplina: 303.44
• Soggetto topico: Postmodernism - Social aspects; Economic development - Social aspects; International cooperation - Social aspects; Culture conflict; Marginality, Social; Civilization, Modern - 1950-; Society & culture: general
• Soggetto geografico: Developing countries Civilization Western influences
• Persona (resp. second.): PrakashMadhu Suri; ShivaVandana
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front 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. ; Beyond 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. ; Remaking 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. ; Torture 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: In this classic text Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash examine the post-modern epic unfolding at the grassroots and the mass movement away from the monoculture of a single global society.
• Titolo autorizzato: Nothing to lose but our fear
• ISBN: 1-85649-546-9; 1-350-22054-X; 1-85649-545-0; 1-78360-184-1; 1-78360-414-X; 1-78360-416-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788165503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Critique, influence, change.