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 and those movements' efforts to steer the region in
particular directions. He examines attempts by capitalists to
appropriate the rainforest and extract resources, by developers to
set the region on the path of modernist progress, and by biologists
and others to defend this incredibly rich biodiversity "hot-spot"
from the most predatory activities of capitalists and developers.
He also looks at the attempts of academics, activists, and
intellectuals to understand all of these complicated processes.
"Territories of Difference" is Escobar's effort to think with
Afro-Colombian intellectual-activists who aim to move beyond the
limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of
neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their place-based
cultures and territories.
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