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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century) by Arturo Escobar is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Territories of Difference, Arturo Escobar, author of the widely debated book Encountering Development, analyzes the politics of difference enacted by specific place-based ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of Afro-Colombian activists of Colombia’s Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCN’s visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movement’s struggles for autonomy, territory, justice, and cultural recognition. Yet he also does much more. Consistently emphasizing the value of local activist knowledge for both understanding and social action and drawing on multiple strands of critical scholarship, Escobar proposes new ways for scholars and activists to examine and apprehend the momentous, complex processes engulfing regions such as the Colombian Pacific today. Escobar illuminates many interrelated dynamics, including the Colombian government’s policies of development and pluralism that created conditions for the emergence of black and indigenous social movements a

Who reads Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (New Ecologies for the Twenty-First Century)?

Author

Arturo Escobar

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822343271

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Sociology, History, Social Science

Updated

2026-03-24