Gustavo Esteva

Gustavo Esteva (Mexico City, August 20, 1936) is an Mexican activist, "deprofessionalized intellectual" and founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in the Mexican city of Oaxaca. He is also a former high-ranking official in the government of President Echeverría, and an advisor with the Zapatista Army for National Liberation in Chiapas for the negotiations with the government. He works at the Centre for Intercultural Dialogues and Exchanges (CEDI) in the city of Oaxaca, publishes regularly in different journals, and works with Indian groups and NGOs.

Selected works

* Esteva, Gustavo, "Regenerating People's space" in: Saul H. Mendlovitz and R.B.J. Walker, Towards a Just World Peace. London: Butterworths, 1987; pp.271-298.
* Esteva, Gustavo, "Tepito: No Thanks, First World", in: In Context, num. 30, Fall/Winter 1991
* Esteva, Gustavo, "Re-embedding Food in Agriculture", in: Culture and Agriculture [Virginia, USA] , 48, Winter 1994
* Esteva, Gustavo, "From 'Global Thinking' to 'Local Thinking': Reasons to Go beyond Globalization towards Localization", with M.S.Prakash, in: Osterreichische Zeitschirift für Politikwissenschatft, 2, 1995
* Esteva, Gustavo, "Beyond Development, What?", with M.S. Prakash, in: Development in Practice, Vol. 8, No.3, Aug 1998.
* Esteva, Gustavo, "The Zapatistas and People's Power", in Capital & Class, 68, Summer 1999.

External links

* [http://www.multiworld.org/m_versity/althinkers/gusint.htm Interview with Gustavo Esteva on the Zapatista Rebellion] (2001)
* [http://www.inmotionmagazine.com/global/gest_int_1.html Interview with Gustavo Esteva: The Society of the Different] (2006)
* [http://gustavoesteva.com/ Personal webpage]