Chapter
Preface to the critique influence change edition: Pathways to Commoning
Commoning: marginalizing the marginalizers
Democracy is dead. Long live democracy
A new, very old, social subject
1 Grassroots Post-modernism: Beyond the Individual Self, Human Rights and Development
Grassroots post-modernism: An oxymoron?
Peoples beyond modernity: sagas of resistance and liberation
Interlocutor and audience
Beyond the three sacred cows
Content and structure of this book
2 From Global to Local: Beyond Neoliberalism to the International of Hope
Global thinking is impossible
The wisdom of thinking small
Downsizing to human scale
The power of thinking and acting locally
Non-provincial localism: forging human solidarities
Beyond the global neoliberalism: the international of hope
3 Beyond the Individual Self: Regenerating Ourselves
Remaking the soil of cultures
Communal memory: remembering to escape dis-membering
Who am I? From calling card to knots in nets
Return and re-membership: regenerating soil cultures
From tolerance to hospitality
Beyond waste: composting, remaking communal soil
Hospitality abused: demarcating post-modern limits
4 Human Rights: The Trojan Horse of Recolonization?
Human rights universalized: liberation or abuse?
Gandhi: liberation without modern states or human rights
From Beijing: global platforms and universal rights
Moral progress or aberrations?
Celebrating the pluriverse
Torture and violence: the bottom line
The kitsch of human rights: the last moral resort for recolonization?
Beyond the violence of human rights
Towards new intercultural dialogues
5 People’s Power: Radical Democracy for the Autonomy of their Commons
Democracy today: subversive or dead?
The rise and fall of democracy
6 Epilogue: The Grassroots Post-modern Epic
No new truths, reopening our horizons
Regenerating public virtues
Grassroots Postmodernism
：Remaking the Soil of Cultures
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