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Jul 27, 2022
After The Apocalypse
Finding Hope in Organizing
Summary
Our
times of crumbling structures and decaying social bonds are often
depicted as apocalyptic. Monika Kostera's book After The Apocalypse: Finding Hope in Organizing (John Hunt, 2020) takes the apocalypse as a metaphor
to help us in the search for meaning in our everyday realities. Yes,
the apocalypse is when social structures and institutions fall apart
and we are terrified and suffocated by the debris raining down upon
us. But “apocalypse" also means “revelation”. The very
collapse reveals what dissipating institutions were constructed upon:
where there ought to have been foundational common values, most often
there is violence and raw power. Yet the values are there, too, and
they can be found. This book is a guide to these values, showing how
they can be of help to organizers and organizational dreamers.
Joan Francisco Matamoros-Sanin is an anthropologist with a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico´s National Autonomous University (UNAM). He is devoted to both research and teaching, as well as public education through digital means. Some of his work revolves around the study of masculinities in relation to ethnicity, the body, space and the sociocultural contexts in which people live out their lives and its dramas. He has done ethnographic fieldwork across different areas of Mexico and in Saraguro, Ecuador. He also teaches courses in San Luis Potosí´s Autonomous University and in UNESCO´s Regional Cooperation Centre for Adult Education in Latin America and the Caribbean. One of his publications in English. A recent publication in Spanish. Here is some of his work related to research and public education in anthropology.
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Joan Francisco Matamoros-Sanin is an anthropologist with a PhD in Sociomedical Sciences from Mexico´s National Autonomous University (UNAM).