{"product_id":"territories-of-difference-place-movements-life-redes-9780822343448","title":"Territories of Difference  Place Movements Life","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnalyzes 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] wonderful, demanding, and courageous book. . . . It offers a theoretically informed perspective on social movements in the global South, anchored in questions specific to these actors and in dialogue with them. With his book, Escobar contributes an innovative method to the study of social movements.” - Pierre Hamel, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book, magisterial in its command of an impressive range of theory and literature, is a provocative and cutting-edge guide to thinking about place, capital, nature, development, identity, and networks. . . . [I]n the sheer power, depth, and complexity of the analysis and in the author’s ethical engagement and belief in the possibility of ‘worlds and knowledges otherwise,’ the book is a superb achievement.” - Peter Wade, \u003ci\u003eHispanic American Historical Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerritories of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e will become a classic . . . . [I]t is a mesmerizingly ambitious and provocative inquiry into social, cultural, biological, and economic life in the 21st century. It is also a highly original approach to the study of contemporary forms of domination and resistance that challenges Eurocentric conceptions of capitalist globalization and calls for alternatives to modernity.” - Ulrich Oslender, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A wonderful, massive tour de force by one of today’s leading anthropologists. Arturo Escobar links his ethnography to a series of larger pressing debates about globalization and development, biology and nature, and social movements and network theory. The result is a book of astonishing virtuosity, range, and insight. It is nothing less than a model for the dense, interdisciplinary, polyglot theoretical analysis needed to understand experience anywhere in the world today.”—\u003cb\u003eOrin Starn\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eIshi’s Brain: In Search of America’s Last “Wild” Indian\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Peru Reader: History, Culture, Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Books, like wines, take time to mature and develop their full strength. Then they are a delight, and not just for specialists. Arturo Escobar’s eloquent, engaged, and extremely well informed narrative of the Afro-Colombian movements in their struggles to defend their territories and ways of life is, to my mind, the best book on social movements to have appeared in years. It combines, in a unique way, the minutely traced complexity of the struggles and their evolving contexts with much broader issues that appeal to and impact all of us, such as biodiversity, alternatives to development, sustainability of life on earth, and social and cognitive justice. We, academics, students, activists of social movements, cannot but be powerfully interpellated by this landmark book, and can only honor it by reading it attentively, as one savors a good wine.”—\u003cb\u003eBoaventura de Sousa Santos\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eAnother Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Books, like wines, take time to mature and develop their full strength. Then they are a delight, and not just for specialists. Arturo Escobar’s eloquent, engaged, and extremely well informed narrative of the Afro-Colombian movements in their struggles to defend their territories and ways of life is, to my mind, the best book on social movements to have appeared in years. It combines, in a unique way, the minutely traced complexity of the struggles and their evolving contexts with much broader issues that appeal to and impact all of us, such as biodiversity, alternatives to development, sustainability of life on earth, and social and cognitive justice. We, academics, students, activists of social movements, cannot but be powerfully interpellated by this landmark book, and can only honor it by reading it attentively, as one savors a good wine.”—\u003cb\u003eBoaventura de Sousa Santos\u003c\/b\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eAnother Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The product of a lifetime of work on the pitfalls of development, Arturo Escobar’s new book is an engaging and engaged effort to bring together knowledge from Western academia and from Afro-Colombian activists. Through his own blend of discursive theory, he makes academia listen, in the words of one of his local interlocutors, to the ‘drumming’ of a place subjected to capital but resistant to it, brightly illuminating at once the geopolitics of knowledge and of modern empires.”—\u003cb\u003eFernando Coronil\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Magical State: Nature, Money, and Modernity in Venezuela\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book invites us all into alternative projects of world-making. Never losing sight of the forces pushing back at us or the colonizing power of Western thinking, Arturo Escobar marshals an extraordinary array of intellectual resources and social networks to galvanize hopeful action. He grounds his honest yet truly inspiring vision in the place-based knowledge and global activism of his longstanding collaborators, the and resilient and resourceful Afro-Colombian activists of the Pacific region.”—\u003cb\u003eJ. K. Gibson-Graham\u003c\/b\u003e, authors of \u003ci\u003eA Postcapitalist Politics \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The End of Capitalism (As We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e“Arturo Escobar brings his signature commitments—a focus on the materiality of place, nature, and environmental politics, and a recognition of difference and the inescapable histories of coloniality—to an analysis of regional ecological and cultural struggles in Colombia. It is a singularly original contribution, both empirically and theoretically, which forces us to confront the real complexities of capitalism, identities, and political struggle. This book should be required reading for everyone interested in contemporary forms of globalization and economies, as well as the social movements organized against them.”—\u003cb\u003eLawrence Grossberg\u003c\/b\u003e, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTerritories of Difference\u003c\/i\u003e will become a classic . . . . [I]t is a mesmerizingly ambitious and provocative inquiry into social, cultural, biological, and economic life in the 21st century. It is also a highly original approach to the study of contemporary forms of domination and resistance that challenges Eurocentric conceptions of capitalist globalization and calls for alternatives to modernity.” -- Ulrich Oslender * American Ethnologist *\u003cbr\u003e“[A] wonderful, demanding, and courageous book. . . . It offers a theoretically informed perspective on social movements in the global South, anchored in questions specific to these actors and in dialogue with them. With his book, Escobar contributes an innovative method to the study of social movements.” -- Pierre Hamel * American Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e“This book, magisterial in its command of an impressive range of theory and literature, is a provocative and cutting-edge guide to thinking about place, capital, nature, development, identity, and networks. . . . [I]n the sheer power, depth, and complexity of the analysis and in the author’s ethical engagement and belief in the possibility of ‘worlds and knowledges otherwise,’ the book is a superb achievement.” -- Peter Wade * Hispanic American Historical Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Series vii\u003cbr\u003e Preface ix\u003cbr\u003e Acknolwedgments xiii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Place 27\u003cbr\u003e 2. Capital 69\u003cbr\u003e 3. Nature 111\u003cbr\u003e 4. Development 156\u003cbr\u003e 5. Identity 200\u003cbr\u003e 6. Networks 254\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion 299\u003cbr\u003e Notes 313\u003cbr\u003e References Cited 381\u003cbr\u003e Index 417","brand":"MD - Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51456015466839,"sku":"9780822343448","price":1468.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822343448.jpg?v=1755033447","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/territories-of-difference-place-movements-life-redes-9780822343448","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}