Arturo Escobar

Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes

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Produktbeschreibung

Analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. This book offers an ethnographic account of Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN's) visions, strategies, and practices, and chronicles and analyzes the movement's struggles for autonomy, and territory.

Produktdetails

• New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343271
• ISBN-10: 0822343274
• Artikelnr.: 23881484

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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