Arturo Escobar
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Colombian anthropologist
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Arturo Escobar 's Degrees
- PhD Economics Université Paris Cité
- Masters Development Economics Université Paris Cité
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Arturo Escobar is a Colombian-American anthropologist and Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA. His academic research interests include political ecology, anthropology of development, social movements, anti-globalization movements, political ontology, and postdevelopment theory.
Arturo Escobar 's Published Works
Published Works
- Encountering Development : The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1994) (3778)
- Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization (2001) (1436)
- After Nature (1999) (853)
- Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (2008) (788)
- Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements (1998) (727)
- Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (2018) (581)
- The Making Of Social Movements In Latin America: Identity, Strategy, And Democracy (1992) (526)
- LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS (2010) (507)
- Beyond the Third World: imperial globality, global coloniality and anti-globalisation social movements (2004) (475)
- WORLDS AND KNOWLEDGES OTHERWISE: The Latin American modernity/coloniality research program (2007) (463)
- Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture [and Comments and Reply] (1994) (427)
- Imagining a Post-Development Era? Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements (1992) (424)
- Discourse and Power in Development: Michel Foucault and the Relevance of His Work to the Third World* (1984) (397)
- Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing of development anthropology (1991) (334)
- Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World (1988) (332)
- Construction nature: Elements for a post-structuralist political ecology (1996) (294)
- Constructing Nature: Elements for a poststructural political ecology (2002) (283)
- Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation (2015) (273)
- Reflections on ‘development’: Grassroots approaches and alternative politics in the Third World (1992) (264)
- IMAGINING A POST-DEVELOPMENT ERA (2005) (234)
- Globalization and the decolonial option (2010) (224)
- Difference and Conflict in the Struggle Over Natural Resources: A political ecology framework (2006) (209)
- Women and the Politics of Place (2002) (208)
- LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS Alternative modernizations , post-liberalism , or post-development ? (2009) (177)
- The Invention of Development (1999) (177)
- Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South (2016) (173)
- Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups (2004) (162)
- Beyond the Search for a Paradigm? Post-Development and beyond (2000) (150)
- The ‘ontological turn’ in social theory. A Commentary on ‘Human geography without scale’, by Sallie Marston, John Paul Jones II and Keith Woodward (2007) (147)
- Lost Worlds: Environmental Disaster, “Culture Loss,” and the Law (2001) (142)
- ‘Other Anthropologies and Anthropology Otherwise’ (2005) (125)
- WORLDS AND KNOWLEDGES OTHERWISE1 (2007) (122)
- Sustainability: Design for the pluriverse (2011) (119)
- Anthropology and development (2010) (116)
- Culture, Practice and Politics (1992) (107)
- Displacement, development, and modernity in the Colombian Pacific (2003) (107)
- Development, Violence and the New Imperial Order (2004) (89)
- Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible (2020) (87)
- How nature speaks : the dynamics of the human ecological condition (2006) (74)
- Transiciones: a space for research and design for transitions to the pluriverse (2015) (64)
- Postconstructivist Political Ecologies (2010) (56)
- ‘Post-development’ as concept and social practice (2007) (54)
- World Anthropologies : Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power (2006) (54)
- Pluriversal Politics (2020) (52)
- The spaces of neoliberalism: land, place and family in Latin America. (2002) (51)
- An ecology of difference: Equality and conflict in a glocalized world (2006) (48)
- ECONOMICS AND THE SPACE OF MODERNITY: (2005) (48)
- Beyond Neoliberal Governance: The World Social Forum as Subaltern Cosmopolitan Politics and Legality (2005) (47)
- The Process of Black Community Organizing in the Southern Pacific Coast Region of Colombia (2008) (45)
- Introduction: The Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements (2018) (44)
- Environmental Social Movements and the Politics of Place (2002) (38)
- Post-Development @ 25: on ‘being stuck’ and moving forward, sideways, backward and otherwise (2017) (38)
- The Limits of Reflexivity: Politics in Anthropology's Post- "Writing Culture" Era (1993) (37)
- Response: Design for/by [and from] the ‘global South.’ (2017) (36)
- The Anthropology of Development: Discourse, Agency, and Culture@@@An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance@@@Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1996) (35)
- Habitability and design: Radical interdependence and the re-earthing of cities (2019) (29)
- Other Worlds Are (already) Possible: Cyber-Internationalism and Post-Capitalist Cultures (2005) (27)
- Sustaining the Pluriverse: The Political Ontology of Territorial Struggles in Latin America (2017) (25)
- Anthropology and the future (1995) (24)
- Nature's Due: Healing Our Fragmented Culture (2008) (22)
- The professionalization and institutionalization of ‘development’ in Colombia in the early post-world war II period (1989) (21)
- Autonomous design and the emergent transnational critical design studies field (2018) (20)
- Social Movements and the Politics of the Virtual. Deleuzian Strategies (2009) (20)
- Elements for a post-structuralist political ecology (2003) (16)
- Weaving hope in ancestral black territories in Colombia: the reach and limitations of free, prior, and informed consultation and consent (2017) (16)
- (Re)Conceiving Politics? Women's Activism and Democracy in a Time of Retrenchment (2001) (13)
- ARTURO ESCOBAR AND THE DEVELOPMENT DISCOURSE: AN OVERVIEW (2006) (11)
- Reflections on 50 years of Development (2007) (10)
- Healing the web of life: on the meaning of environmental and health equity (2018) (10)
- Development, trans/modernities, and the politics of theory (2008) (10)
- Development and the Anthropology of Modernity (2011) (10)
- Political Ecology of Globality and Diference (2006) (9)
- Conclusion: Theoretical and Political Horizons of Change in Contemporary Latin American Social Movements (2018) (9)
- Thinking-Feeling with the Earth (2019) (8)
- In Search of the Rain Forest (2004) (8)
- Histories of Development, Predicaments of Modernity: Thinking About Globalization from Some Critical Development Studies Perspectives (2010) (7)
- Introduction: Theory and Protest in Latin America Today (2018) (7)
- Culture, Economics, and Politics in Latin American Social Movements Theory and Research (2018) (7)
- Más allá del desarrollo: postdesarrollo y transiciones hacia el pluriverso 1 Beyond Development: Postdevelopment and Transitions towards the Pluriverse (2012) (5)
- Is Escobar's Territories of Difference Good Political Ecology? On Anthropological Engagements with Environmental Social Movements (2014) (4)
- Discourse and Culture in the Undoing of Economism and Capitalocentrism (1999) (4)
- Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998:Collision and Collusion: The Strange Case of Western Aid to Eastern Europe 1989-1998. (2000) (4)
- Commons im Pluriversum (2015) (4)
- An Anthropological Critique of Development: The Growth of Ignorance. MARK HOBART, ed (1995) (4)
- on the Ontology of Design (2013) (3)
- Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions : a preliminary conversation (SPECIAL FEATURE : Socially Sustainable Degrowth as a Social-Ecological Transformation) (2015) (3)
- Complexity theory and the place of the now (2017) (3)
- DECOLONIAL MOVES: TRANS-LOCATING AFRICAN DIASPORA SPACES Agustin Lao-Montes (2013) (3)
- Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice (2022) (3)
- Conversations towards feminist futures. (2003) (3)
- The Practices of Conservation-as-Development (2006) (2)
- Crisis as opportunity (2019) (2)
- The “Problem of Nature” Revisited: History and Anthropology (1998) (2)
- Designing as a Futural Praxis for the Healing of the Web of Life (2020) (2)
- A Massey Muse (2012) (2)
- Responses to ‘“Other Anthropologies and Anthropology Otherwise”: Steps to a World Anthropologies Framework’ by Eduardo Restrepo and Arturo Escobar (June, 2005) (2006) (2)
- Thematic Editorial Organizations of Culture/Cultures of Organization: Understanding Contemporary Latin America and its Organizations (1997) (2)
- Post-development Possibilities: A Conversation (2018) (2)
- Stirring the Anthropological Imagination: Ontological Design in Spaces of Transition (2017) (2)
- Risk factors in ecosystem of hawksbill turtles (eretmochelys imbricata) from ila playita of machalilla national park (2019) (2)
- Articulations, Histories, Development (2006) (1)
- Book review symposium: Arturo Escobar (2008) Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press (2012) (1)
- Hallar senderos pluriversales (2020) (1)
- Beyond the Sacred Forest (2017) (1)
- 14 The Emergence of Collective Ethnic Identities and Alternative Political Ecologies in the Colombian Pacific Rainforest (2020) (1)
- The Anti‐politics machine: “Development,” Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho. JAMES FERGUSON (1991) (1)
- Susceptibility to flooding in abdon calderon of canton portoviejo parish (2018) (1)
- 3. Transition Discourses and the Politics of Relationality: Toward Designs for the Pluriverse (2020) (1)
- Chapter 8. From Pure Genes to GMOs (2019) (1)
- Development (Again) in Question: Trends in Critical Debates on Capitalism, Development and Modernity in Latin America (2019) (1)
- Social Movements and Biodiversity on the Pacific Coast of Colombia (2007) (1)
- In the background of our culture: the rationalistic tradition and the problem of ontological dualism (2013) (1)
- Postdevelopment @ 25 (2019) (1)
- Afterword: The Ongoing Search (2004) (0)
- Laissez-Faire Progress: Invisibilizing the Yrmo (2010) (0)
- Susceptibility to landslides in Los Angeles campus: Southern State University of Manabi (2019) (0)
- June , 2005 ) to a World Anthropologies Framework ' by Eduardo Restrepo and Arturo Responses to ' ' ' Other Anthropologies and Anthropology Otherwise ' ' : Steps (2006) (0)
- Enacting the Yrmo (2010) (0)
- Becoming the Yshiro Nation (2010) (0)
- On design, development and the axes of pluriversal politics: An interview with Arturo Escobar (2022) (0)
- Movimentos sociais e a política do virtual. Estratégias deleuzianas (2009) (0)
- MoviMientos sociales y la política de lo virtual. estrategias deleuzianas 1 social MoveMents and the politics of the vir- tual. deleuzian strategies MoviMentos sociais e a política do virtual. estra- tégias deleuzianas (2009) (0)
- New Guinea-New York (2006) (0)
- Guest Editorial Preface (2019) (0)
- A World in which Many Worlds (Are Forced to) Fit (2010) (0)
- Territories of Difference (2020) (0)
- Introduction: Globalization and the Struggle for Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise (2010) (0)
- Making Crater Mountain (2006) (0)
- Post-development Possibilities: A Conversation (2018) (0)
- Forest, Power and Development: Costa Rican Peasants in the Changing Environment, Nygren Anna. The Finnish Anthropological Society, Berkeley (1995), 238, Price not given (1997) (0)
- Fights of "good living" by black women from Alto Cauca (2015) (0)
- Progress Towards Development in Latin America: From Prebisch to Technological Autonomy:Progress Towards Development in Latin America: From Prebisch to Technological Autonomy. (1991) (0)
- Cultural Politics and Biological Diversity: State, Capital, and Social Movements in the Pacific Coast of Colombia (2020) (0)
- A “ Minga ” for post-development * (2011) (0)
- Celebrating Friendship: A collective tribute to Smitu Kothari (2009) (0)
- Stephen Gudeman and Alberto Rivera, Conversations in Colombia. The Domestic Economy in Life and Text (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990). PP. x + 207, £27.50 hb, £9.95 pb. (1991) (0)
- Notes On the Contributors (2006) (0)
- Progress Towards Development in Latin America: From Prebisch to Technological Autonomy (2009) (0)
- New books received (1983) (0)
- I especially want to thank members of the Confédération Paysanne (2020) (0)
- State-Driven Development: Stabilizing Modernity (2010) (0)
- Political Ecology of Globality and (2006) (0)
- Review: Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes by Arturo Escobar (2010) (0)
- Collision and Collusion (Book Review). (2000) (0)
- Price not givenAnna Nygren, Forest, Power and Development: Costa Rican Peasants in the Changing Environment, The Finnish Anthropological Society, Berkeley (1995), p. 238. (1997) (0)
- Society for Cultural Anthropology: Conversations with Lourdes Arizpe (2000) (0)
- What Are Pluriversal Politics and Ontological Designing?. Interview with Arturo Escobar (2022) (0)
- DELINKING: THE RHETORIC OF MODERNITY, THE LOGIC OF COLONIALITY AND THE GRAMMAR OF DE-COLONIALITY Walter D. Mignolo (2013) (0)
- Welcome to Possibility Studies (2023) (0)
- Development Projects : Persistence Despite Evident Failure “ Development ” and “ Development Projects ” : Neocolonialism and the Discourse of Social Change (2019) (0)
- A Land of Pure Possibility (2006) (0)
- INTRODUCTION: COLONIALITY OF POWER AND DE-COLONIAL THINKING Walter D. Mignolo (2013) (0)
- Postdevelopment: Beyond the Critique of Development (2019) (0)
- Exchanging Conservation for Development (2006) (0)
- COLONIALITY AND MODERNITY/RATIONALITY Aníbal Quijano (2013) (0)
- Global Higher Education in 2050 (2022) (0)
- food, Population, and Employment: Some Comments on the Colombian Experience (1978) (0)
- Recently Published (2010) (0)
- Conclusion: Eisheraho/Renewal (2010) (0)
- Sustainable Development: Modernity Unravels? (2010) (0)
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