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The Uses of an Earthquake
Cleaver, Harry http://www.eco.utexas.edu/facstaff/Cleaver/earthquake.html
Year Published: 1988 First Published: 1987
Resource Type: Article
The people of Tepito have proven themselves far more capable than the government both of responding to the dangers and of seizing the opportunities created by the earthquake. The earthquake crisis has brought into view a long existent but rarely recognized alternative: the ability and willingness of the people of Tepito, as well as those in many other barrios, to assert a different set of values: those of autonomy, self-activity, and the subordination of work to social needs. It is also embodied in their ability, as against governmental paralysis, to design and implement their own projects, thus elaborating those values in concrete practice.
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