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This book presents more than half a century of Gustavo Esteva's "reflection in action" in the form of essays, books, and interventions in national and international forums and newspaper articles-most published here for the very first time.

Produktbeschreibung
This book presents more than half a century of Gustavo Esteva's "reflection in action" in the form of essays, books, and interventions in national and international forums and newspaper articles-most published here for the very first time.
Autorenporträt
Gustavo Esteva (1936-2022)¿ was a grassroots activist and "deprofessionalized intellectual". He was the founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, Mexico. As one of the best-known advocates of post-development, he held that the whole concept and practice of development is a reflection of Western-Northern hegemony over the rest of the world. Katy Dix is a Guatemalan-American translator and former external collaborator at the Universidad de la Tierra, Mexico.
Rezensionen
"Critique of Development and Other Essays-a book that Gustavo personally oversaw at the very end of his life-is not only proof of Gustavo's unwavering commitment to a pluriversal autonomous transformation beyond the state, market, and formal democracy, but also a testament to his relentless pursuit of the possibility of creating a radical plurality of conviviality between worlds. The book, which consists of a series of essays written by Esteva throughout his intellectual life, offers a body of work and intellectual path that is difficult to summarise in one volume, much less in a book review. However, the care that Gustavo and his editors (Jose Rafael Escobedo and Bernd Reiter) and translator (Kathryn Dix) invested into these texts-each one carefully selected and presented in a particular order (some of them translated into English for the first time), along with introductory notes by Esteva himself-provides a systematic and comprehensive view on his work expanding over five decades."

Carlos Tornel, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography