num_pages: 240
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 civilization and regenerating their own cultural and natural spaces. In so doing, they are challenging the three sacred cows of modernity--the idea, entrenched in globalization, 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.
language: English
title: Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures
titlecomplete: Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change)
genres: Social Justice, Nonfiction, Activism, Sociology
ratings_count: 79
publisher: Zed Books