Pieter Versteegh’s new book Posturban: Deurbanising Society — alterRural Modernities brings to the fore a bold idea: the dominant urban model is not the solution, but part of the problem!
By linking the climate crisis, social inequalities and democratic disempowerment, the book calls for a radical redesign of the way we organize life and development.
Through a transdisciplinary critique of urbanisation’s ties to the Promethean foundations of capitalism, consumerism, and technocratic governance, the book shows why urban-centred solutions fail—and what can replace them. It introduces alterRural, Epimethean modernities that restore faith in nature and humanity: frameworks uniting ecological care, community autonomy, and cultural resilience into strategies for systemic change. It demonstrates how reviving peasant values and fostering a plurality of place-based communities can lead towards sustainable, equitable, and life-affirming ways to inhabit Earth.
Posturban repositions the rural areas at the center of solutions, as a field where resilient communities, strong social bonds, and sustainable models of life and development are born.
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Source: routledge.com