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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
- A. Escobar
- Geography
- 26 November 2008
In Territories of Difference , Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development , analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and… Expand
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Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization
- A. Escobar
- Sociology
- 1 February 2001
The last few years have seen a resurgence of interest in the concept of place in anthropology, geography, and political ecology. “Place” — or, more accurately, the defense of constructions of place —… Expand
Encountering Development : The Making and Unmaking of the Third World
- A. Escobar
- History, Economics
- 14 November 1994
Preface to the 2012 Edition vii Preface xlv CHAPTER 1: Introduction: Development and the Anthropology of Modernity 3 CHAPTER 2: The Problematization of Poverty: The Tale of Three Worlds and… Expand
Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements
- A. Escobar
- Sociology
- 1 December 1998
This paper proposes a framework for rethinking the conservation and appropriation of biological diversity from the perspective of social movements. It argues that biodiversity, although with concrete… Expand
LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS
- A. Escobar
- History
- 1 January 2010
This paper examines the socio-economic, political, and cultural transformations that have been taking place in South America during the past ten years, particularly in Ecuador, Venezuela, and… Expand
After Nature
- A. Escobar
- Sociology
- Current Anthropology
- 1 February 1999
This paper presents the outline of an anthropological political ecology that fully acknowledges the constructedness of nature while suggesting steps to weave together the cultural and the biological… Expand
WORLDS AND KNOWLEDGES OTHERWISE: The Latin American modernity/coloniality research program
- A. Escobar
- Sociology
- 3 April 2007
Construction nature: Elements for a post-structuralist political ecology
- A. Escobar
- Sociology
- 1 May 1996
Abstract This paper argues for the development of a poststructuralist political ecology. While political ecology studies the relationships between society and nature in contexts of power—particularly… Expand
Imagining a Post-Development Era? Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements
- A. Escobar
- Sociology
- 1992
For some time now, it has been difficult at times even impossible to talk about development, protest or revolution with the same confidence and encompassing scope with which intellectuals and… Expand
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