Conviviality and Political Resistance From Below: Ivan Illich's Legacy in Mexico
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Author: Elías González Gómez
Publisher: Rupture and Active Distribution Co-Publication
ISBN: 9783911720069
Published: 08/2025
Format: Book
Size: 5.8" x 8.3"
Page count: 148
This book is an act of recovery and a gesture of resistance. It brings together a constellation of thinkers whose work has often been sidelined or excluded from the dominant narratives of western thought, or framed narrowly within specific academic "schools." Figures like Ivan Illich, Gustavo Esteva, Sylvia Marcos, and Jean Robert have offered some of the most radical and enduring critiques of modernity, yet their insights remain largely absent from anglophone debates on crisis, politics, and alternatives. As the promises of progress and development are collapsing under the weight of ecological devastation, social fragmentation, and institutional breakdown, these voices offer a welcome renewal of political priority and urgency. Conviviality and Political Resistance From below: Ivan Illich's Legacy in Mexico by Elías González Gómez is not simply about translating words from Spanish into English: it is about making audible a different grammar of thought. One born not in the corridors of power but in community kitchens, autonomous monasteries, abandoned schools.
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