Arturo Escobar

Broschiertes Buch

Territories of Difference

Place, Movements, Life, Redes

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343271
• ISBN-10: 0822343274
• Artikelnr.: 23881484