Sustainability: Design for the pluriverse
Arturo Escobar is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and associate editor of Development. His research interests are related to political ecology; the anthropology of development, social movements; Latin American development and politics. Escobar′s research uses critical techniques in his provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general. He also explores possibilities for alternative visions for a post-development era. He is a major figure in the post-development academic discourse, and a serious critic of development practices championed by western industrialized societies.
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2011
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Authors: | Escobar, Arturo |
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Development. - Palgrave Macmillan, ISSN 1011-6370. - Vol. 54.2011, 2, p. 137-140
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Palgrave Macmillan |
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