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Escobar, Arturo, 1951-


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  • Fuller Name

    • Escobar Velásquez

  • Variants

    • Escobar Velásquez, Arturo, 1951-
    • Velásquez, Arturo Escobar, 1951-

  • Additional Information

    • Birth Date

        1951-11-20

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

        • Affiliation End: 2018
        • Organization: (naf) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Has Affiliation

    • Birth Place

        Manizales (Colombia)

    • Associated Locale

        Northampton (Mass.)

    • Associated Locale

        Berkeley (Calif.)

    • Associated Locale

        Chapel Hill (N.C.)

    • Associated Locale

        Ithaca (N.Y.)

    • Associated Language

        Spanish

    • Associated Language

        English

    • Field of Activity

      Modernity

      Social movements

      Ontological design

      Pluriversal and transition studies

      Latin American critical thought

      Anthropology of development

      Cultural studies of science and technology


    • Occupation

      Anthropologist

      Professor

      Chemical engineer

      Political ecologist

  • Exact Matching Concepts from Other Schemes

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  • Sources

    • found: His Food, population and employment, 1978:t.p. (Arturo Escobar)
    • found: Phone call to Cornell Univ., Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 3/12/81(Arturo Escobar; b. 1952)
    • found: The Making of social movements in Latin America, 1992:CIP t.p. (Arturo Escobar, Smith College) publisher info. (Asst. prof. of Anthropology; Ph.D., Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley)
    • found: Smith Coll. bulletin, 1991:(Arturo Escobar; B.S., Univ. del Valle, Colombia; M.F.S., Cornell Univ.)
    • found: Encountering development, 1994:CIP t.p. (Arturo Escobar) data sheet (b. Nov. 20, 1951)
    • found: Cruzando fronteras en América Latina, c2003:t.p. (Arturo Escobar) p. ix (anthro. prof., Univ. of N.C., Chapel Hill)
    • found: Digital dissertations, Apr. 20, 2009(Escobar, Arturo, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987--Power and visibility)
    • found: E-mail from author, July 7, 2008(signed: Arturo; b. Nov. 20, 1951)
    • found: University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology website, June 17, 2022(Arturo Escobar; born in Manizales, Colombia; [email protected]; [email protected]; specialist in anthropology of development, modernity, and social movements; political ecology, ontological design, pluriversal and transition studies, Latin American critical thought, cultural studies of science and technology; bachelor's in chemical engineering, Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia) (1969-1975); master's of food science and international nutrition, Cornell University (1976-1978); Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley (1978-1987); professor of anthropology and political ecology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill (until 2018); currently an adjunct professor with the Programas de Doctorado en Ciencias Ambientales of the Universidad del Valle, Cali) and the Programa de Doctorado en Diseño y Creación of the Universidad de Caldas (Manizales); he is an activist-researcher from Cali, Colombia, working on territorial struggles against extractivism, postdevelopmentalist and post-capitalist transitions, and ontological design; over the past three decades he has worked closely with several Afro-Colombian, environmental, and feminist organizations on these issues; he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April 2021.; author of: Designs for the Pluriverse (2018), Territorios de diferencia: lugar, movimientos, vida, redes Popayán (2016), Autonomía y diseño : la realización de lo comunal (2016), Feel-thinking with the Earth (in Spanish: Sentipensar con la tierra) (2014), La invención del desarrollo (2012) ,Territories of difference: place, movements, life, redes (2008), Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the third world (1995), in Spanish: La invención del tercer mundo: construcción y desconstrucción del desarrollo (1998); co-edited: Territories of difference: place, movement, life, redes (2008), Woman and the politics of place (2005), The world social forum: changing empires (2004), Cultures of politics/politics of culture (also published in Spanish and Portuguese (2000), The making of social movements in Latin America: identity, strategy, and democracy (1992)) - https://anthropology.unc.edu/person/arturo-escobar/ - https://anthropology.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2013/11/Escobar-resume-16.pdf
    • found: Email from the author, June 17, 2022:(Arturo Escobar; Arturo Escobar Velásquez; born November 20, 1951; doesn't have a middle name; [email protected])

  • Editorial Notes

    • [The author doesn't have a middle name.]

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  • Change Notes

    • 1981-04-29: new
    • 2022-06-25: revised

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