Grassroots post-modernism : remaking the soil of cultures
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Grassroots post-modernism : remaking the soil of cultures
Zed Books, 1998
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 civilisation and regenerating their own cultural and natural spaces. In so doing, they are challenging the three sacred cows of modernity - the idea, entrenched in globalisation, 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.
Winner of the AESA (American Educational Studies Ass) Critics' Choice Award
Table of Contents
Contents
1. From the Global to the Local
2. Beyond Neo-Liberalism to the International of Hope
3. Beyond the Self: Regenerating Ourselves.
4. Human Rights: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization?
5. People's Power: Radical Democracy for the Autonomy of their Commons
6. Epilogue: The Grassroots Post-modern Epic
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