Arturo Escobar (anthropologist)

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Arturo Escobar V. (born in Manizales, Colombia) is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research interests are related to political ecology; the anthropology of development, social movements; latin american development and politics. Escobar's research uses critical techniques in his provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general. He also explores possibilities for alternative visions for a post-development era. He is a major figure in the post-development academic discourse, and a serious critic of development practices championed by western industrialized societies.

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World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Contexts of Power (Oxford: Berg 2005). Co-edited with Gustavo Lins Ribeiro 2005. Women and the Politics of Place (Bloomfield, CT: Kumarian Press). Co-edited with Wendy Harcourt.

The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires (Delhi: Viveka 2004). Co-edited with Jai Sen, Anita Anand, and Peter Waterman. German edition: Eine andere Welt Das Weltsozialfoum. Berlin: Karl Dietz Verlag, 2004.

Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements (Boulder: Westview Press). Co-edited with Sonia Alvarez and Evelina Dagnino (Also published in Portuguese and Spanish). Portuguese edition: Cultura e Política nos movimienbtos sociais latino-americanos. Bello Horizonte: Editoria UFMG, 2000.

Books in Spanish:

The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy. (1992). (Boulder: Westview Press). Co-edited with Sonia Alvarez.

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995). (Princeton: Princeton University Press). Best Book Award, New England Council of Latin American Studies, 1996.
La invención del tercer mundo: Construcción y Deconstrucción del Desarrollo (1998). Bogotá [Colombia]: Norma.