The history of rural Mexico is one of constant violence. It has been described as an eternal battle to overcome a hostile environment by adapting it to the needs of its inhabitants. And it has become an intense and permanent battle between those making this effort and those who dominate them. This book will attempt to analyze the origin, content, and possible outcome of this story of extraordinary and constant violence.

The Struggle for Rural Mexico

Business & Money

Esteva, Gustavo

Real Estate

Bergin and Garvey

Gustavo Esteva (Decolonizing the Classics)

Reference

Routledge

The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto

In his 1949 inaugural address, President Harry S. Truman heralded the era of international development, a “worldwide effort for the achievement of peace, plenty, and freedom” that would aim to “greatly increase the industrial activity in other nations and. . . . raise substantially their standards of living.” At the time, more than half of the world’s population lived in areas defined as underdeveloped; today, that figure surprisingly remains the same. Arguing that such persistent stagnation resulted partly from poor comprehension of the terms “developed” and “underdeveloped,” this provocative book revises our understanding of these fraught concepts. Demystifying the statistics that international organizations use to measure development, the authors introduce the alternative concept of buen vivir: a state of living well. They contend that everyone on the planet can achieve this state, but only if we all begin living as communities rather than individuals and nurture our respective commons. With their unique take on a famously difficult issue, they offer new hope for the future of development—and of humankind.

Babones, Salvatore J.

Babcicky, Philipp

Economics

Policy Press

Grassroots Post-modernism resolutely attacks the three sacred cows of modernity - the idea 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 - that have so grotesquely warped hour view of the human condition. 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 some predetermined mold, leading toward an increasing homogenization of cultures and life styles, the authors argue for a 'radical pluralism' that honours and nurtures enables many paths to the realization of self-defined aspirations. This classic text is essential reading for those looking beyond Neoliberalism, the global project and the individual self.

Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change)

Politics & Social Sciences

Prakash, Madhu Suri

Social Sciences

Zed Books

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.

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.

Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change)

International

El proyecto histórico del México moderno, planteado en la Constitución de 1917, incluyó algunas de las principales reivindicaciones históricas de los campesinos. La historia rural del país en este siglo es la de los enfrentamientos surgidos del choque entre ese impulso de gran densidad histórica y el de la agricultura comercial privada. Durante el gobierno de Lázaro Cárdenas se repartieron más de 20 millones de hectáreas, casi el doble de lo repartido en los veinte años anteriores. La producción agrícola aumentó a razón del 5% al año y los ejidos campesinos, que para 1940 ocupaban ya la mitad de la superficie bajo cultivo, atravesaron una etapa de innovación e inusitado vigor. Después de la segunda guerra mundial se llevó a cabo una transformación agrícola, concentrada en unas cuantas áreas. La agricultura comercial privada obtuvo con ella una clara hegemonía y se insertó fluidamente en el proceso global de internacionalización del capital, mientras que la economía campesina languidecía. Al cabo de unos años, en la décima parte de los predios agropecuarios se concentró más de la mitad del valor de la producción y alrededor del 70% de los recursos productivos. La población rural llegó a representar poco más de la tercera parte de la población total y se definió como el sector más pobre de la sociedad mexicana. Desde 1965 la crisis rural inherente a esa evolución empezó a hacerse evidente. En la década de los setenta fue preciso importar 25 millones de toneladas de cereales. Para el abasto de 1980 se requirió adquirir en el exterior la cuarta parte de los consumos básicos de la población, la mitad de la cual está enfrentando, a pesar de ello, serios problemas de desnutrición. A medida que la crisis se profundiza, se ha observado un aumento constante de las movilizaciones campesinas y de los enfrentamientos entre grupos antagónicos que se disputan el control de los recursos productivos. No pasa día sin que tales enfrentamientos cobren alguna víctima. Este libro da cuen

La batalla en el México rural (Spanish Edition)

SIGLO VEINTIUNO, EDITORES

Hace 10 anos que el país esta viviendo una revolución, la del México presidencialista , vertical, la de quienes manejan el poder: una revolución sorda que pretendía llevarnos de manera ver vertiginosa al tan cacareado primer mundo. Inesperadamente para muchos, el primer día de enero de 1994 se presente el movimiento del EZLN haciendo tambalear a esta revolución. Surge México profundo, habían los indios de este país. Y con ellos, se abre un espacio donde los inconformes pueden expresarse. El cambio viene desde este México profundo que encuentra su medio de expresión en el neo-zapatismo; no es una llamada a las armas, no es un asunto de elecciones, de partidos y de poder. es un asunto de cambios radicales en nuestra visión de la económica, de la cultura y de todos los que habitamos esta nación. Y solo la Convención Nacional Democrática abre la posibilidad de paz y democracia.

Crónica del fin de una era: El secreto del EZLN (Spanish Edition)

History

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The Struggle for Rural Mexico

Gustavo Esteva (Decolonizing the Classics)

Gustavo Esteva (Decolonizing the Classics)

The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto

The Future of Development: A Radical Manifesto

Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change)

Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change)

Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (Critique Influence Change)

La batalla en el México rural (Spanish Edition)

Crónica del fin de una era: El secreto del EZLN (Spanish Edition)