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, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 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.
  • Antropologías del mundo. Transformaciones disciplinarias dentro de sistemas de poder, trans. Carlos Andrés Barragán and Eduardo Restrepo, Popayán, Colombia: Envión Editores, 2008. (Spanish)
• 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.

Links

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