Arturo Escobar (jan 1, 1951 – 12h 36min, nov 9, 2024 y)

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ABOUT
- Colombian, PhD at UC Berkeley and taught at UMass Amherst, and UNC Chapel Hill
- fieldwork with Afro-Colombian and indigenous groups
- focuses on the cultural, ecological, and political impacts of globalization on the Global South
- known for work on development studies, political ecology, and postcolonial theory

MAJOR WORKS
- Ecountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995)
- Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds (2018)

CONTRIBUTIONS
- pluriverse thinking
- political ecology
- a founder of past-development theory

CRITIQUES
- Escobar's focus on discourse may overlook the material realities of poverty and inequality and lack practical alternatives
- he may romanticize indigenous knowledge as inherently positive and resistant to globalization without fully considering the complexities and internal dynamics of these communities
- concept of the pluriverse is theoretically vague and challenging to implement in practice

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