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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes (New Ecologies for the TwentyFirst Century),Used
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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 placebased ethnic and environmental movements in the context of neoliberal globalization. His analysis is based on his many years of engagement with a group of AfroColombian activists of Colombias Pacific rainforest region, the Proceso de Comunidades Negras (PCN). Escobar offers a detailed ethnographic account of PCNs visions, strategies, and practices, and he chronicles and analyzes the movements 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 governments 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 hotspot 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 Escobars effort to think with AfroColombian intellectualactivists who aim to move beyond the limits of Eurocentric paradigms as they confront the ravages of neoliberal globalization and seek to defend their placebased cultures and territories.
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