Latin American Perspectives on Globalization Ethics, Politics, and Alternative Visions

by Sáenz, Mario; Alcoff, Linda Martín; Castillo, Debra A.; Castro-Gómez, Santiago; Martínez, Rafael Cervantes; Chamizo, Felipe Gil; Fornet-Betancourt, Raúl; Gracia, Jorge J. E.; Jaramillo, María Mercedes; Lara-Zavala, María Pía; Mendieta, Eduardo; Mignolo, W

• ISBN13: 9780742507777
• ISBN10: 0742507777
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-23
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

From the most prominent thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics, and social science comes a challenge to conventional theories of globalization. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no tempor

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Linda Martin Alcoff
Introduction: Periphery at the Core	1	(24)
Mario Saenz
Part I The New Conditions of Inequality
No Longer Broad but Still Alien Is the World: The End of Modernity and the Transformation of Culture in the Times of Globalization	25	(15)
Santiago Castro-Gomez
The Ethics of Globalization and the Globalization of Ethics	40	(15)
Eduardo Mendieta
Transnationalization, the State, and Political Power	55	(22)
Rafael Cervantes Martinez
Felipe Gil Chamizo
Roberto Regalado Alvarez
Ruben Zardoya Loureda
Part II Rethinking Identity
Globalization and the Borders of Latinity	77	(25)
Walter D. Mignolo
Going Home: Tununa Mercado's En estado de memoria	102	(21)
Debra A. Castillo
Globalization, Philosophy, and Latin America	123	(12)
Jorge J. E. Gracia
Part III Alternative Visions of Globalization
Humanity and Globalization	135	(18)
Leopoldo Zea
A Global Democratic Order: A Normative Proposal	153	(15)
Maria Pia Lara-Zavala
Latin American Feminism and the New Challenges of Globalization	168	(17)
Maria Mercedes Jaramillo
Part IV Projects of Liberation and Social Transformation
Feminism and Globalization Processes in Latin America	185	(15)
Ofelia Schutte
Latin American Liberation Theology, Globalization, and Historical Projects: From Critique to Construction	200	(30)
Ivan Petrella
An Alternative to Globalization: Theses for the Development of an Intercultural Philosophy	230	(7)
Raul Fornet-Betancourt
Index	237	(11)
About the Contributors	248