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Grassroots Post-Modernism
Gustavo Esteva is one of Latin America's best-known alternative thinkers about development. For this book, he teams up with Madhu Suri Prakash to offer a vibrant and provocative critique of the Western development paradigm.
Random Acts of Culture
An unsentimental, optimistic book about the art of living in apocalyptic times.
Grassroots Postmodernism
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 homogenization of cultures and lifestyles, the authors argue for a ‘radical pluralism’ that honours and nurtures distinctive cultural variety and enables many paths to the realization of self-defined aspirations. This classic text is essential reading for those looking beyond neoliberalism, the global project and the individual self.
¡Viva la Historieta!
A study of how a nation's comics artists grapple with economic upheaval
Escaping Education
"Escaping Education challenges the modern certainly that education is a universal good and a human right. It opens doors to alternative landscapes of learning and living that still flourish at the grassroots, within the cultures of the uneducated, the undereducated, and the illiterate who constitute the social majorities or the Two-Thirds World. It celebrates the richness of their traditions, their pluriverse or commons, common sense, and communal teaching, keeping at bay the modern reign of homo oeconomicus and homo educandus, Standing the all-too-familiar tale of education on its head, it joins the regeneration of soil cultures, resisting cultural meltdown in the global classroom."--BOOK JACKET.
Mapping the Megalopolis
Mapping the Megalopolis: Order and Disorder in Mexico City brings the humanities and the social sciences into a conversation about Mexico City in its social, political, and aesthetic manifestations. Through a shared exploration of the order and disorder that mutually constitute the city, contributing authors engage topics such as the privatization of public space, challenges to existing conceptualizations of the urban form, and variations on the flâneur and other urban actors. Mexico City is truly a city of versions, and Mapping the Megalopolis celebrates the intersection of the image of the city and the lived experience of it. Readers will find substantive entries on a great variety of Mexico City’s monumental and counter-monumental spaces, as well as some of its pivotal contemporary debates and cultural products. The volume serves both as supplemental reading on the world city or the Latin American city, and as a central text in a multidisciplinary study of Mexico City.
Tepito Arte Acá
De la introducción: De la misma manera que enfrenta la hoja de papel, el lienzo o el muro en blanco, Daniel Manrique ha enfrentado su propia vida. Daniel escribió este libro a mano, con el corazón y vestido de negro. El lector podrá constar que estamos ante un extraño caso social, pues resulta que la coherencia de este artista une la brocha con la pluma y lo que dice con lo que hace. Con una leve y precisa pincelada, una vecindad queda convertida en barco, los tendederos son mástiles y velas. El aliento de la inspiración sopla, Manrique se hace a la mar y nos invita a un insólito viaje por el barrio, la ciudad, el país, y el mundo, a un viaje inteligente por el arte y la cultura. Co...
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