TY - BOOK ID - 79466666 TI - Grassroots post-modernism : remaking the soil of cultures AU - Esteva, Gustavo AU - Prakash, Madhu Suri AU - Shiva, Vandana PY - 2014 SN - 9781783601820 9781783601837 9781783601844 9781783601851 1783601833 1783601841 178360185X PB - London Zed Books DB - UniCat KW - Political sociology KW - Community organization KW - Civilization, Modern -- 1950-. KW - Culture conflict. KW - Developing countries -- Civilization -- Western influences. KW - Economic development -- Social aspects. KW - International cooperation -- Social aspects. KW - History & Archaeology KW - History - General UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79466666 AB - 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 predeter ER -