An activist and "deprofessionalized intellectual" who founded the Universidad de la Tierra in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. He is one of the best-known advocates of Post-Development. His work challenges global development paradigms and explores alternative paths that prioritize local knowledge and sustainability.
Gustavo Esteva's work spans over fifty years of insightful essays, books, and interventions, showcasing his "reflection in action." This collection includes many pieces published for the first time, offering a unique perspective on national and international issues through his thought-provoking commentary and activism. Esteva's contributions provide a deep understanding of social and political dynamics, making this compilation a significant addition to contemporary discourse.
In this provocative and highly original book, Salvatore Babones argues that democracy has been undermined by a quiet but devastating power grab conducted by a class of liberal experts. Populism thus represents an imperfect but reinvigorating political flood that has the potential to rejuvenate democracy across the west--
In this classic text Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash examine the post- modern epic unfolding at the grassroots and the mass movement away from the monoculture of a single global society.
This book explains the origins of development and underdevelopment and offers a new vision for development, demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development and introducing the alternative concept of buen vivir: the state of living well.
Escaping Education challenges the modern certainty 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 of 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.