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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

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CONTENTS

ONE Grassroots Post-modernism : Beyond the Individual Self, Human Rights and Development = 1

 Grassroots Post-modernism : An Oxymoron? = 1

 Peoples beyond Modernity : Sagas of Resistance and Liberation = 4

 David and Goliath = 6

 Interlocutor and Audience = 7

 Beyond the Three Sacred Cows = 9

 Who are "The People"? = 11

 Content and Structure of this Book = 14

TWO From Global to Local : Beyond Neoliberalism to the International of Hope = 19

 Global Thinking is Impossible = 22

 The Wisdom of Thinking Small = 23

 Downsizing to Human Scale = 26

 Escaping Parochialism = 27

 Clothing the Emperor = 28

 The Power of Thinking and Acting Locally = 32

 Non-provincial Localism : Forging Human Solidarities = 33

 Settling in a Pluriverse = 36

 Beyond the Nation-State = 39

 Beyond Global Neoliberalism : The International of Hope = 42

THREE Beyond the Individual Self : Regenerating Ourselves = 50

 Dis-membering = 50

 Re-membering = 55

 Remaking the Soil of Cultures = 63

 Communal Memory : Remembering to Escape Dis-membering = 67

 Who am I? From Calling Card to Knots in Nets = 76

 Return and Re-membership : Regenerating Soil Cultures = 80

 From Tolerance to Hospitality = 86

 Beyond Waste : Composting, Remaking Communal Soil = 94

 Hospitality Abused : Demarcating Post-modern Limits = 99

FOUR Human Rights : The Trojan Horse of Recolonization? = 110

 Human Rights Universalized : Liberation or Abuse? = 110

 Gandhi : Liberation without Modern States or Human Rights = 114

 From Beijing : Global Platforms and Universal Rights = 117

 Moral Progress or Aberrations? = 119

 Celebrating the Pluriverse = 125

 Torture and Violence : The Bottom Line = 132

 The Kitsch of Human Rights : The Last Moral Resort for Recolonization? = 136

 The Current Threat = 138

 Beyond the Violence of Human Rights = 142

 Towards New Intercultural Dialogues = 143

FIVE People's Power : Radical Democracy for the Autonomy of their Commons = 152

 Democracy Today : Subversive or Dead? = 152

 The Rise and Fall of Democracy = 154

 Radical Democracy = 158

 Like the Shade of a Tree = 187

SIX Epilogue : The Grassroots Post-modern Epic = 192

 No New Truths, Reopening Our Horizons = 199

 Regenerating Public Virtues = 200

Bibliography = 208

Index = 217