Territories of Difference
Place, Movements, Life, Redes
1st Edition
Published on 26. November 2008
455 pages
978-0-8223-8943-9 (ISBN)
Description
Through analysis of the Colombian Pacific's geography, peoples, and environment, Escobar questions the place assigned to epistemology, politics and the economy in modernity, arguing that hierarchical privilege can be subverted via activists' entanglement
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Persons
Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, winner of the Best Book Award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies, and Más Allá del Tercer Mundo: Globalización y Diferencia. He is a co-editor of World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power; Women and the Politics of Place; The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires; and Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements.
Content
About the Series vii
Preface ix
Acknolwedgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Place 27
2. Capital 69
3. Nature 111
4. Development 156
5. Identity 200
6. Networks 254
Conclusion 299
Notes 313
References Cited 381
Index 417
Preface ix
Acknolwedgments xiii
Introduction 1
1. Place 27
2. Capital 69
3. Nature 111
4. Development 156
5. Identity 200
6. Networks 254
Conclusion 299
Notes 313
References Cited 381
Index 417
