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Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
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Toward an Other Globalization: From the Single Thought to Universal Conscience (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, 12
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This book presents an alternative theory of globalization that
derives not from the dominant perspective of the West, from which
this process emerged, but from the critical vantage point of the
Third World, which has borne the heaviest burdens of globalization.
It offers a critical and uniquely first-hand perspective that is
lacking not only from the apologists of Western hegemony, but from
most scholars writing against this hegemony from within the
globalizing world. Renowned throughout Latin America and parts of
Europe, the author, Brazilian geographer Milton Santos, has long
been for the most part inaccessible to the English-speaking world.
Only one of his books, The Shared Space: The Two Circuits of the
Urban Economy in Underdeveloped Countries, published in 1975, has
been translated into English; nevertheless, the works of Santos's
most important phase, from the 1980s until his death in 2001, have
remained unavailable to English readers. With the translation of
Toward an Other Globalization, one of the last works published in
Santos's lifetime, this situation has finally been rectified. In
this book, Santos argues that we must consider globalization in
three different senses: globalization as a fable (the world as
globalizing agents make us believe), as perversity (the world as it
is presently, in the throes of globalization), and as possibility
(the world as it could be). What emerges from the analysis of these
three senses is an alternative theory of globalization rooted in
the perspective of the so-called Global South. Santos concludes his
text with a message that is optimistic, but in no way nai ve. What
he offers instead is a revolutionary optimism and, indeed, an other
globalization.
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