Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar (* 1952 in Manizales ) is a Colombian - American anthropologist.

He is the Kenan Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina in the USA. His academic interests include political ecology , development anthropology , social movements , movements critical of globalization and development criticism.

Escobar criticizes modernist ideas and neoliberalism and sees here, especially in large institutions, actors with a bad idea of ​​"development".

Life

Escobar was born in Manizales (Colombia). He is a Colombian and US citizen and publishes in English and Spanish.

Escobar originally embarked on a career as a chemist. In 1975 he received his Bachelor of Science as a chemical engineer from the University of Valle  in Cali (Colombia) and completed his training as a biochemist at the Medical School of the University of Valle. He traveled to the USA to do his Masters in Food Science and International Nutrition at Cornell University, which he received in 1978. From 1981 to 1982 he worked for the National Planning Office of the Colombian Government (cabinet of Julio César Turbay Ayala ). In 1987 he received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley , in Development Philosophy, Policy and Planning.

Escobar taught primarily at US universities, such as the University of Massachusetts Amherst , and also at university institutions in Colombia, Finland, Spain and England.

Fonts

• Encountering Development: The Making And Unmaking Of The Third World. Princeton University Press, Princeton (New Jersey) 1995.
• Feel-thinking with the Earth  (in Spanish:  Sentipensar con la tierra ). Unaula, Medellin 2014.
• Ed., With  Walter D. Mignolo : Globalization and the Decolonial Option . Routledge, London 2010.
• Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes . Duke University Press , Durham 2008.

literature

• Simon Batterbury , Jude L. Fernando: Arturo Escobar . In: Rob Kitchin, Phil Hubbard (Eds.): Key Thinkers on Space and Place . 2nd Edition. Sage, Los Angeles 2010, ISBN 978-1-84920-102-5 , pp. 154-161 .
• Sonja Ganseforth: Arturo Escobar (* 1952) . In: Matthias Middell, Ulf Engel (ed.): Theoreticians of globalization . Leipziger Universitätsverlag, Leipzig 2010, ISBN 978-3-86583-459-1 , p. 211-224 .

Web link

• Escobar's website at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( May 29, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive )

swell

1. ↑ Simon Reid-Henry: Arturo Escobar: a post-development thinker to be reckoned with . In: The Guardian . November 5, 2012, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com [accessed July 16, 2017]).