Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar (1952) is a Colombian-American anthropologist primarily known for his contribution to postdevelopment theory and political ecology.

Works

• Encountering Development: the making and unmaking of the third world, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995.
  • Kaihatsu tono sōgū: daisan sekai no hatsumei to kaitai [開発との遭遇: 第三世界の発明と解体], trans. Kitano Shū, Tokyo: Shinhyōron, 2022, 538 pp. (Japanese)

• El final del salvaje. Naturaleza, cultura y política en la antropología contemporánea, Santafé de Bogotá: CEREC / ICAN, 1999. (Spanish)

• editor, with Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Contexts of Power, Oxford: Berg, 2006.
  • Antropologías del mundo. Transformaciones disciplinarias dentro de sistemas de poder, trans. Carlos Andrés Barragán and Eduardo Restrepo, Popayán, Colombia: Envión, 2008. (Spanish)

• Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008, xvi+435 pp.

• editor, with Walter Mignolo, Globalization and the Decolonial Option, London/New York: Routledge, 2009, 412 pp. The first book in English profiling the work of a research collective that evolved around the notion of coloniality, understood as the hidden agenda and the darker side of modernity. First published as a special issue of Cultural Studies (21:2-3). Publisher. Review: Merino (Sociology).

• Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2018, 312 pp. Publisher. Review: Parker (Society+Space).

• Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible, Duke University Press, 2020, 232 pp. Publisher.

• Autonomie et design: la réalisation de la communalité, trans. Anne-Laure Bonvalot and Claude Bourguignon-Rougier, Toulouse: EuroPhilosophie, 2020. (French)

• co-editor, Plurivers: un dictionnaire du post-développement, Marseille: Wildproject, 2022, 550 pp. Publisher. (French)

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Escobar_(anthropologist)