Gustavo Esteva: A Critique of Development and other essays - Paperback

by Gustavo Esteva (Author), Kathryn Dix (Translator)

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.

Author Biography

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.