Escobar / Rocheleau Territories of Difference

Place, Movements, Life, Redes
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8943-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 455 Seiten

Reihe: A John Hope Franklin Center Book

Through analysis of the Colombian Pacific's geography, peoples, and environment, Escobar questions the place assigned to epistemology, politics and the economy in modernity, arguing that hierarchical privilege can be subverted via activists' entanglement

Autoren/Hrsg.

Escobar, Arturo

Rocheleau, Dianne

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About the Series vii

Preface ix

Acknolwedgments xiii

Introduction 1

1. Place 27

2. Capital 69

3. Nature 111

4. Development 156

5. Identity 200

6. Networks 254

Conclusion 299

Notes 313

References Cited 381

Index 417

Über Autor(innen)

Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World, winner of the Best Book Award from the New England Council of Latin American Studies, and Más Allá del Tercer Mundo: Globalización y Diferencia. He is a co-editor of World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power; Women and the Politics of Place; The World Social Forum: Challenging Empires; and Cultures of Politics/Politics of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements.