Shaping
Globalization:
Civil Society, Cultural Power and Threefolding
What Others Are Saying
About the Book
"Shaping Globalization is one more example of the depth, complexity, and scholarliness Nicanor Perlas always brings to a subject. The fact that the subject here is civil society and where it might be going is cause for celebration. If we are at the beginning of a new history, we are lucky to have one of the very best thinking activists as our guide." —Beth Burrows, Activist and Director, The Edmonds Institute
"Nicanor Perlas has written a brilliant exposition of a new viewpoint in social theory and practice, one that applies to all of us in our everyday lives. Not many new ideas can say that! . . . Perlas is making a very important contribution to seeing how and why positive change can happen. It is the kind of framework that wants to empower us to take our future into our own hands, rather than feel disempowered by impersonal technological trends, by transnational corporations and by globalization." —Paul H. Ray, Ph.D, coauthor of Cultural Creatives; How 50 Million People Are Changing The World; from the Forward of Shaping Globalization
"Nicanor Perlas is a well-known man in the Philippines, a sage, almost a movement. He has clearly recognized, that the civil society movement with which he has been connected all his life—including over a decade during the Marcos dictatorship—has become the most important counterbalance to the excesses of capitalism. . . . It is astonishing enough that a leading spokesman of civil society in the Philippines shows interest in threefolding. That he should do so in a book tackling the challenge of globalization increases the anticipation of every reader. . . . Nicanor Perlas is a wonderful symbol, showing how we in the North can learn from the wisdom of Southern peoples."—Dr. Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, member, German Parliament; from the Message for Shaping Globalization
