Gustavo Esteva
Biographic Data
| ID | 160367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gustavo Esteva |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gustavo |
| FAMILY NAME | Esteva |
| SIGNATURE | ESTEVA G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Independiente |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 164 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Llegó el tiempo de Jean
El ensayo muestra la vigencia actual de la vida y obra de Jean Robert, por la pertinencia de sus ideas y prácticas ante los predicamentos de hoy. Intenta destacar la unidad y coherencia de su trabajo y la necesidad de apreciarlo con una mirada tan abierta como la suya. Se ofrecen algunos ejemplos para ilustrar las maneras de pensar y actuar de Jean y su trascendencia y se destacan sus contribuciones para la construcción del mundo nuevo
From fear to hope: Learning from Bipoc in hard times—Covid 19, climate collapse & racial violence
In the urban, modern world, most people lack anything they can call 'community', a 'commons', a WE. They are fully individualized. Formatted by the school and all forms of education to accommodate themselves into a competitive, individualistic world, they acutely suffer the consequences of the current collapses, climatic and institutional. Many of them are falling into conditions of extreme misery and deprivation. Even those in better conditions,…
Postdevelopment @ 25
Escobar and Esteva engage in a retrospective conversation on postdevelopment, reassessing the critiques and discussing openly the meaning of ‘living beyond development’ today. Some of the topics covered include: how the development discourse has shaped mentalities and practices; the tensions and contradictions in the institutional world, trapped in their compulsion for development in the face of the multiple crisis plaguing the world; the new man…
Alternative paths of transformation
I suggest in this essay that Latin American societies in movement are currently transcending the democratic framework to engage in autonomous paths to construct their new home, a world in which many worlds can be embraced, as the Zapatistas proposed years ago
Decolonial trends in higher education: Voices from Latin America
The theme of the Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) 2018 Annual Conference in Mexico City, ‘Re-mapping Global Education: South–North Dialogue’, called for scholars and practit
Professionalisierung
Post-Development @ 25: On ‘being stuck’ and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise
Escobar and Esteva engage in a retrospective conversation on Post-Development, reassessing the critiques and discussing openly the meaning of ‘living beyond development’ today. Some of the topics covered include: how the development discourse has shaped mentalities and practices; the tensions and contradictions in the institutional world, trapped in their compulsion for development in the face of the multiple crisis plaguing the world; the new ma…
Postdesarrollo a los 25: Sobre 'Estar Estancado' Y Avanzar Hacia Adelante, Hacia Los Lados, Hacia Atrás Y De Otras Maneras
Escobar y Esteva entablan una conversación sobre postdesarrollo en el que reevalúan las críticas y discuten abiertamente sobre lo que hoy significa 'vivir más allá del desarrollo'. Algunos de los temas abarcados incluyen cómo el discurso del desarrollo ha moldeado mentalidades y prácticas; las tensiones y contradicciones en el mundo institucional que está enfrascado en su obsesión por el desarrollo ante las múltiples crisis que plagan el mundo; l…
Para Sentipensar La Comunalidad
Tras establecer la distinción entre palabras y términos, el ensayo intenta despejar la confusión que se ha creado por el hecho de que 'comunalidad' nació a la vez como palabra y como término. En la segunda parte, se plantean limitaciones y posibilidades de la empresa científica que se ha formado en torno al término, y se esboza la hipótesis de que la palabra tiene una función central que cumplir en la construcción del mundo nuevo, en particular, …
The Hour of Autonomy
Many of the Latin American battalions of discontent created by the crisis adopted the flag of autonomy, each in their own way. The established powers, for their part, had very diverse reactions to these autonomic initiatives. To provide an overview, considering such diversity in the autonomous struggles and the reactions they provoke, I describe herein two conflicting impulses that shape the notions of autonomy currently adopted in Latin America:…
The New “What To Do?”
How civil society is re-encountering itself in Mexico, from the 1985 earthquake reconstruction to the Zapatistas
Regenerar el tejido social de la esperanza
Se presenta la hipótesis de que la mirada más allá de la modernidad puede descubrir la nueva sociedad que ha estado surgiendo en el vientre de la vieja.La insurrección de saberes subyugados e imaginaciones reprimidas, que caracteriza la transición, estaría definiendo una nueva perspectiva e interpretación del mundo, que serían expresión
Pensar Todo De Nuevo: Anticapitalismos Sin Socialismo. Una Conversación Con Teodor Shanin
Un número creciente de personas se pregunta qué hacer con el capitalismo. Con la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona, los zapatistas trajeron este asunto al debate público y la agenda política. Declararon con firmeza que su lucha era anticapitalista. Entre quienes celebraron el hecho hubo muchos que dieron por sentado el signo socialista de esta posición. Si están contra el capitalismo serán socialistas, pensaron. Pero no debemos abordar esta…
The Oaxaca Commune and Mexico's Coming Insurrection
Was the “Oaxaca Commune” an ephemeral insurrection, an explosion of popular rage, without enduring consequences? Was it a specific expression of autonomous movements, an experiment anticipating the direction some of them are taking? Or was it an isolated, singular episode of people's struggles? As yet we do not have enough of an historical perspective to fully appreciate the nature and impact of the events of 2006 in Oaxaca that attracted the wor…
Another Perspective, Another Democracy
1. This text is based on a presentation at the Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia, convoked by the Zapatista National Liberation Army in San Cristobal de Las Casas, January 4, 2009. Digna Rabia tra
La Crisis Como Esperanza
Se cierran múltiples ciclos, en México y en el mundo, en el tránsito hacia una nueva era. La extinción del régimen político mexicano y del imperio estadounidense coincidiría con el final del capitalismo y de la era moderna y lo estaría anticipando. Se sentarían así las bases de un régimen autoritario sin precedentes, aprovechando el miedo, el caos y la incertidumbre propios de la transición. Es preciso intensificar las luchas para bloquear esa pe…
Oaxaca: The Path of Radical Democracy
From June to October 2006, there was no police in the city of Oaxaca (population 600,000), not even to direct traffic. The governor and his functionaries met secretly in hotels or private homes; no
The Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca: A Chronicle of Radical Democracy
The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca-APPO) grew out of the violent repression of a teachers' strike in Oaxaca during the late spring of 2006. This chronicle is a description from inside, by a participant, of APPO's process of decision making and increasingly popular representation of citizens' discontent with federal and Oaxacan state authorities during the critical months from August 2006 to th…
The Meaning and Scope of the Struggle for Autonomy
The 1994 Chiapas uprising brought the issue of autonomy to the center of Mexico's political debate. It is still there, but the discussion, often focused on autonomy as a demand of, by, and for Indian communities, generates more confusion and confrontation than clarity and consensus. In this essay, I argue that autonomy is the focal point for a new semantic constellation for social change: a tradition of resistance has been transformed into a proj…
The Zapatistas and People's Power
In examining the Zapatista struggle, this article attempts to describe the content and implications of the Zapatista proposals. It focuses on its contribution to political theory and practice. It examines how the use of the expression 'civil society' by the Zapatistas alludes to a new organization of people's struggle, challenging both formal categories and the power structure of the modern nation-state. It also elaborates on the Zapatista notion…
Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures
Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures
“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…
Beyond development, what
The authors begin to outline the epic now unfolding at the grassroots, arguing that pioneering social movements are groping for their liberation from the 'Global Project' being imposed upon them. Going beyond the premises and promises of modernity, people at the grassroots are re-inventing or creating afresh new intellectual and institutional frameworks. As is clear from the recent rebellion in southern Mexico, ordinary men and women are learning…
Re‐embedding Food in Agriculture
Re-embedding Food in Agriculture
Regenerating People's Space
Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures
Beyond development, what
The authors begin to outline the epic now unfolding at the grassroots, arguing that pioneering social movements are groping for their liberation from the 'Global Project' being imposed upon them. Going beyond the premises and promises of modernity, people at the grassroots are re-inventing or creating afresh new intellectual and institutional frameworks. As is clear from the recent rebellion in southern Mexico, ordinary men and women are learning…
Para Sentipensar La Comunalidad
Tras establecer la distinción entre palabras y términos, el ensayo intenta despejar la confusión que se ha creado por el hecho de que 'comunalidad' nació a la vez como palabra y como término. En la segunda parte, se plantean limitaciones y posibilidades de la empresa científica que se ha formado en torno al término, y se esboza la hipótesis de que la palabra tiene una función central que cumplir en la construcción del mundo nuevo, en particular, …
The Meaning and Scope of the Struggle for Autonomy
The 1994 Chiapas uprising brought the issue of autonomy to the center of Mexico's political debate. It is still there, but the discussion, often focused on autonomy as a demand of, by, and for Indian communities, generates more confusion and confrontation than clarity and consensus. In this essay, I argue that autonomy is the focal point for a new semantic constellation for social change: a tradition of resistance has been transformed into a proj…
Post-Development @ 25: On ‘being stuck’ and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise
Escobar and Esteva engage in a retrospective conversation on Post-Development, reassessing the critiques and discussing openly the meaning of ‘living beyond development’ today. Some of the topics covered include: how the development discourse has shaped mentalities and practices; the tensions and contradictions in the institutional world, trapped in their compulsion for development in the face of the multiple crisis plaguing the world; the new ma…
Oaxaca: The Path of Radical Democracy
From June to October 2006, there was no police in the city of Oaxaca (population 600,000), not even to direct traffic. The governor and his functionaries met secretly in hotels or private homes; no
The Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca: A Chronicle of Radical Democracy
The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca-APPO) grew out of the violent repression of a teachers' strike in Oaxaca during the late spring of 2006. This chronicle is a description from inside, by a participant, of APPO's process of decision making and increasingly popular representation of citizens' discontent with federal and Oaxacan state authorities during the critical months from August 2006 to th…
The Hour of Autonomy
Many of the Latin American battalions of discontent created by the crisis adopted the flag of autonomy, each in their own way. The established powers, for their part, had very diverse reactions to these autonomic initiatives. To provide an overview, considering such diversity in the autonomous struggles and the reactions they provoke, I describe herein two conflicting impulses that shape the notions of autonomy currently adopted in Latin America:…
The Zapatistas and People's Power
In examining the Zapatista struggle, this article attempts to describe the content and implications of the Zapatista proposals. It focuses on its contribution to political theory and practice. It examines how the use of the expression 'civil society' by the Zapatistas alludes to a new organization of people's struggle, challenging both formal categories and the power structure of the modern nation-state. It also elaborates on the Zapatista notion…
The Oaxaca Commune and Mexico's Coming Insurrection
Was the “Oaxaca Commune” an ephemeral insurrection, an explosion of popular rage, without enduring consequences? Was it a specific expression of autonomous movements, an experiment anticipating the direction some of them are taking? Or was it an isolated, singular episode of people's struggles? As yet we do not have enough of an historical perspective to fully appreciate the nature and impact of the events of 2006 in Oaxaca that attracted the wor…
La Crisis Como Esperanza
Se cierran múltiples ciclos, en México y en el mundo, en el tránsito hacia una nueva era. La extinción del régimen político mexicano y del imperio estadounidense coincidiría con el final del capitalismo y de la era moderna y lo estaría anticipando. Se sentarían así las bases de un régimen autoritario sin precedentes, aprovechando el miedo, el caos y la incertidumbre propios de la transición. Es preciso intensificar las luchas para bloquear esa pe…
Social Conflict and Inflation in Mexico
Social conflict takes many forms. Violent confrontations, strikes, civil disobedience, and public demonstrations are some of the more obvious ways in which people can display their discomfort with existing social conditions. In most societies, government and established social groups will go to great lengths to prevent this discontent from overflowing the normal channels of social conciliation. Mexican society has been particularly successful amo…
Alternative paths of transformation
I suggest in this essay that Latin American societies in movement are currently transcending the democratic framework to engage in autonomous paths to construct their new home, a world in which many worlds can be embraced, as the Zapatistas proposed years ago
Decolonial trends in higher education: Voices from Latin America
The theme of the Comparative and International Education Society’s (CIES) 2018 Annual Conference in Mexico City, ‘Re-mapping Global Education: South–North Dialogue’, called for scholars and practit
Postdesarrollo a los 25: Sobre 'Estar Estancado' Y Avanzar Hacia Adelante, Hacia Los Lados, Hacia Atrás Y De Otras Maneras
Escobar y Esteva entablan una conversación sobre postdesarrollo en el que reevalúan las críticas y discuten abiertamente sobre lo que hoy significa 'vivir más allá del desarrollo'. Algunos de los temas abarcados incluyen cómo el discurso del desarrollo ha moldeado mentalidades y prácticas; las tensiones y contradicciones en el mundo institucional que está enfrascado en su obsesión por el desarrollo ante las múltiples crisis que plagan el mundo; l…
Another Perspective, Another Democracy
1. This text is based on a presentation at the Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia, convoked by the Zapatista National Liberation Army in San Cristobal de Las Casas, January 4, 2009. Digna Rabia tra
Regenerar el tejido social de la esperanza
Se presenta la hipótesis de que la mirada más allá de la modernidad puede descubrir la nueva sociedad que ha estado surgiendo en el vientre de la vieja.La insurrección de saberes subyugados e imaginaciones reprimidas, que caracteriza la transición, estaría definiendo una nueva perspectiva e interpretación del mundo, que serían expresión
Re-embedding Food in Agriculture
Inflacion y democracia: El caso de Mexico
La batalla en el México rural
Social Conflict and Inflation in Mexico
Social conflict takes many forms. Violent confrontations, strikes, civil disobedience, and public demonstrations are some of the more obvious ways in which people can display their discomfort with existing social conditions. In most societies, government and established social groups will go to great lengths to prevent this discontent from overflowing the normal channels of social conciliation. Mexican society has been particularly successful amo…
SAM is dead — long live SAM
Regenerating People's Space
The Search for Self-Sufficiency in Rural Mexico
Re‐embedding Food in Agriculture
Re-embedding Food in Agriculture
Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures
“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…
Beyond development, what
The authors begin to outline the epic now unfolding at the grassroots, arguing that pioneering social movements are groping for their liberation from the 'Global Project' being imposed upon them. Going beyond the premises and promises of modernity, people at the grassroots are re-inventing or creating afresh new intellectual and institutional frameworks. As is clear from the recent rebellion in southern Mexico, ordinary men and women are learning…
The Zapatistas and People's Power
In examining the Zapatista struggle, this article attempts to describe the content and implications of the Zapatista proposals. It focuses on its contribution to political theory and practice. It examines how the use of the expression 'civil society' by the Zapatistas alludes to a new organization of people's struggle, challenging both formal categories and the power structure of the modern nation-state. It also elaborates on the Zapatista notion…
Grassroots Post-Modernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures
The Meaning and Scope of the Struggle for Autonomy
The 1994 Chiapas uprising brought the issue of autonomy to the center of Mexico's political debate. It is still there, but the discussion, often focused on autonomy as a demand of, by, and for Indian communities, generates more confusion and confrontation than clarity and consensus. In this essay, I argue that autonomy is the focal point for a new semantic constellation for social change: a tradition of resistance has been transformed into a proj…
Oaxaca: The Path of Radical Democracy
From June to October 2006, there was no police in the city of Oaxaca (population 600,000), not even to direct traffic. The governor and his functionaries met secretly in hotels or private homes; no
The Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca: A Chronicle of Radical Democracy
The Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca-APPO) grew out of the violent repression of a teachers' strike in Oaxaca during the late spring of 2006. This chronicle is a description from inside, by a participant, of APPO's process of decision making and increasingly popular representation of citizens' discontent with federal and Oaxacan state authorities during the critical months from August 2006 to th…
Another Perspective, Another Democracy
1. This text is based on a presentation at the Festival Mundial de la Digna Rabia, convoked by the Zapatista National Liberation Army in San Cristobal de Las Casas, January 4, 2009. Digna Rabia tra
La Crisis Como Esperanza
Se cierran múltiples ciclos, en México y en el mundo, en el tránsito hacia una nueva era. La extinción del régimen político mexicano y del imperio estadounidense coincidiría con el final del capitalismo y de la era moderna y lo estaría anticipando. Se sentarían así las bases de un régimen autoritario sin precedentes, aprovechando el miedo, el caos y la incertidumbre propios de la transición. Es preciso intensificar las luchas para bloquear esa pe…
The Oaxaca Commune and Mexico's Coming Insurrection
Was the “Oaxaca Commune” an ephemeral insurrection, an explosion of popular rage, without enduring consequences? Was it a specific expression of autonomous movements, an experiment anticipating the direction some of them are taking? Or was it an isolated, singular episode of people's struggles? As yet we do not have enough of an historical perspective to fully appreciate the nature and impact of the events of 2006 in Oaxaca that attracted the wor…
Regenerar el tejido social de la esperanza
Se presenta la hipótesis de que la mirada más allá de la modernidad puede descubrir la nueva sociedad que ha estado surgiendo en el vientre de la vieja.La insurrección de saberes subyugados e imaginaciones reprimidas, que caracteriza la transición, estaría definiendo una nueva perspectiva e interpretación del mundo, que serían expresión
Pensar Todo De Nuevo: Anticapitalismos Sin Socialismo. Una Conversación Con Teodor Shanin
Un número creciente de personas se pregunta qué hacer con el capitalismo. Con la Sexta Declaración de la Selva Lacandona, los zapatistas trajeron este asunto al debate público y la agenda política. Declararon con firmeza que su lucha era anticapitalista. Entre quienes celebraron el hecho hubo muchos que dieron por sentado el signo socialista de esta posición. Si están contra el capitalismo serán socialistas, pensaron. Pero no debemos abordar esta…
The New “What To Do?”
How civil society is re-encountering itself in Mexico, from the 1985 earthquake reconstruction to the Zapatistas
Para Sentipensar La Comunalidad
Tras establecer la distinción entre palabras y términos, el ensayo intenta despejar la confusión que se ha creado por el hecho de que 'comunalidad' nació a la vez como palabra y como término. En la segunda parte, se plantean limitaciones y posibilidades de la empresa científica que se ha formado en torno al término, y se esboza la hipótesis de que la palabra tiene una función central que cumplir en la construcción del mundo nuevo, en particular, …
The Hour of Autonomy
Many of the Latin American battalions of discontent created by the crisis adopted the flag of autonomy, each in their own way. The established powers, for their part, had very diverse reactions to these autonomic initiatives. To provide an overview, considering such diversity in the autonomous struggles and the reactions they provoke, I describe herein two conflicting impulses that shape the notions of autonomy currently adopted in Latin America:…
Professionalisierung
Post-Development @ 25: On ‘being stuck’ and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise
Escobar and Esteva engage in a retrospective conversation on Post-Development, reassessing the critiques and discussing openly the meaning of ‘living beyond development’ today. Some of the topics covered include: how the development discourse has shaped mentalities and practices; the tensions and contradictions in the institutional world, trapped in their compulsion for development in the face of the multiple crisis plaguing the world; the new ma…
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