%0 Journal Article %T Una minga para el posdesarrollo %A ESCOBAR %A ARTURO %J Signo y Pensamiento %D 2011 %I Pontificia Universidad Javeriana %X this article summarizes some of the conclusions to which different social and academic movements have arrived over the last two decades on the issue of globalization and its implications; the mainstream model, based on the notions of "development" and "modernity", has come to a head. therefore, it is necessary to move forward in a cultural transition which we can understand as a change of era rather than a period of changes. in order to carry out this transformation we must first unravel the contradictions nowadays present between neo-developmentism and post-development, and to do so, of course, for the benefit of the latter. %K globalization %K development %K post-development %K neo-developmentism %K globalization %K social development %K culture and globalization. %U http://www.scielo.org.co/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0120-48232011000100020&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en