Arturo Escobar
Arturo Escobar is a professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of the influential book "Encountering Development-The Making and Unmaking of the Third World". His recent research has focused on the intersection among development, capital, and social movements in the Colombian Pacific region. Specifically, he is concerned with looking in the context of the transnational debates on rainforest political ecology and biodiversity conservation.
Arturo Escobar is a professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He is author of the influential book "Encountering Development-The Making and Unmaking of the Third World". His recent research has focused on the intersection among development, capital, and social movements in the Colombian Pacific region. Specifically, he is concerned with looking in the context of the transnational debates on rainforest political ecology and biodiversity conservation. See less
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Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds
Too theoretical
Greensboro (a nearby city) is implementing a twenty year growth plan, with solicited input from citizens. Van Jones wrote a fantastic book called "The Green Collar Economy," and he was in the Obama ... Read More