Escobar, Arturo, 1951- (Nombre personal)

The author doesn't have a middle name.

His Food, population and employment, 1978: t.p. (Arturo Escobar)

Phone call to Cornell Univ., Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 3/12/81 (Arturo Escobar; b. 1952)

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)

Smith Coll. bulletin, 1991: (Arturo Escobar; B.S., Univ. del Valle, Colombia; M.F.S., Cornell Univ.)

Encountering development, 1994: CIP t.p. (Arturo Escobar) data sheet (b. Nov. 20, 1951)

Cruzando fronteras en América Latina, c2003: t.p. (Arturo Escobar) p. ix (anthro. prof., Univ. of N.C., Chapel Hill)

Digital dissertations, Apr. 20, 2009 (Escobar, Arturo, Ph. D., University of California, Berkeley, 1987--Power and visibility)

E-mail from author, July 7, 2008 (signed: Arturo; b. Nov. 20, 1951)

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Anthropology website, June 17, 2022 (Arturo Escobar; born in Manizales, Colombia; aescobar@email.unc.edu; turoescobar@gmail.com; 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

Email from the author, June 17, 2022: (Arturo Escobar; Arturo Escobar Velásquez; born November 20, 1951; doesn't have a middle name; turoescobar@gmail.com)