A challenge to conventional theories of globalization, from thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics and social science. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity.

A challenge to conventional theories of globalization, from thinkers in Latin American philosophy, literature, politics and social science. The contributors to this volume imagine a discourse in which revolution requires no temporalized march of progress or takeovers of state power but instead aims at local control and the material conditions for human dignity. They propose models of transcultural and intercultural relations that replace centre/periphery or world-systems approaches, thus removing the need for a central reference point. They also focus on the constructive questions of building toward dialogic relationships based on equality and epistemic co-operation rather than subsumption to a universalized paradigm. The work ultimately suggests a reconstruction of the world in terms of the interests of one of the peripheral regions of the world, arguing with cogency and urgency that none within contemporary globalization debates can afford to ignore the Latin American philosophical tradition.

Introduction - periphery at the core
the new conditions of inequality
the world is no longer wide but continues being alien - the end of modernity and the transformation of cultures in times of globalization, Santiago Castro Gomez
the ethics of globalization and the globalization of ethics, Eduardo Mendieta
transnationalization, state and political power, Rafael Cervantes Martinez, Felipe Gil Chamizo and Roberto Regalado Alvarez et al
the rethinking of identity
globalization and Latinidad, Walter Mignolo
going home - Tununa Mercado's "En Estado de Memoria", Debra Castillo
globalization, philosophy and Latin America, Jorge Gracia
alternative visions of globalization
globalization - competition within a comparative framework, Leopoldo Zea
a global democratic order - a normative proposal, Maria Pia Lara Zavala
Latin American feminism in the face of the new challenges of globalization, Maria Mercedes Jaramillo
projects of liberation and social transformation
feminism and globalization processes in Latin America, Ofelia Schutte
Latin American liberation theology, globalization, and historical projects -from critique to construction, Ivan Petrella
theses for the comprehension and practice of interculturality as an alternative to globalization, Raul Fornet-Betancourt.