Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures

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 cont...