Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar (born 1952) is a Colombian-American anthropologist primarily known for his contribution to postdevelopment theory and political ecology.
Literature
- Encountering Development: the making and unmaking of the third world, 1995
- El final del salvaje. Naturaleza, cultura y política en la antropología contemporánea, Santafé de Bogotá: CEREC / ICAN, 1999
- co-edited with Gustavo Lins Ribeiro, World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations in Contexts of Power, Oxford: Berg, 2006
- Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes, Durham: Duke University Press, 2008
- co-edited with Walter Mignolo, Globalization and the Decolonial Option, London: Routledge, 2010.
