Territories Of Difference
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Territories Of Difference
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Author : Arturo Escobar
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-26
Territories Of Difference written by Arturo Escobar and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-26 with Social Science categories.
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.
Territories Of Difference
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Author : Loretta Todd
language : en
Publisher: Banff, Alta. : Walter Phillips Gallery
Release Date : 1993
Territories Of Difference written by Loretta Todd and has been published by Banff, Alta. : Walter Phillips Gallery this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Art categories.
With essays by cultural theorists, artists, filmmakers, authors and art critics, Territories of Difference moves beyond traditional polarities of mainstream and periphery, normal and deviant, universal and particular; and proposes challenging ideas about how the meaning of difference is made... and unmade. Focusing primarily on the histories and context of Canada, these important texts represent a spectrum of critical practices and cultural readings. They consider several “territories of difference” and emphasize the multiple aspects of social identities.
Pluriversal Politics
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Author : Arturo Escobar
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2020-04-24
Pluriversal Politics written by Arturo Escobar and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-24 with Social Science categories.
In Pluriversal Politics Arturo Escobar engages with the politics of the possible and how established notions of what is real and attainable preclude the emergence of radically alternative visions of the future. Reflecting on the experience, philosophy, and practice of indigenous and Afro-descendant activist-intellectuals and on current Latin American theoretical-political debates, Escobar chronicles the social movements mobilizing to defend their territories from large-scale extractive operations in the region. He shows how these movements engage in an ontological politics aimed at bringing about the pluriverse—a world consisting of many worlds, each with its own ontological and epistemic grounding. Such a politics, Escobar contends, is key to crafting myriad world-making stories telling of different possible futures that could bring about the profound social transformations that are needed to address planetary crises. Both a call to action and a theoretical provocation, Pluriversal Politics finds Escobar at his critically incisive best.
The Great Difference
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Author : James Hayes
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
The Great Difference written by James Hayes and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with categories.
Dangerous Territories
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Author : Leslie G. Roman
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-11
Dangerous Territories written by Leslie G. Roman and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-11 with Education categories.
With the recent conservative retrenchment, educational institutions have witnessed a backlash against the gains made by feminist and antiracist activists. Dangerous Territories examines higher education as one site of this backlash, at the same time challenging the binary framing of discourse as "reactionary" vs. "progressive," or Right vs. Left. Contributors are scholars working within and across a variety of disciplines including law, history, sociology, education, literature, women's studies, queer theory, cultural politics and postcolonialism.
Territories Of Difference
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Author : Renée Baert
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Territories Of Difference written by Renée Baert and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.
Ephemeral Territories
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Author : Erin Manning
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2003
Ephemeral Territories written by Erin Manning and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
What does it mean to be at home? In a critical engagement with notions of territory, identity, racial difference, separatism, multiculturalism, and homelessness, this book delves into the question of what it means to belong--in particular, what it means to be at home in Canada. Ephemeral Territories weaves together many narratives and representations of Canadian identity--from political philosophy and cultural theory to art and films such as Srinivas Krishna's Lulu, Clement Virgo's Rude, and Charles Biname's Eldorado--to develop and complicate familiar views of identity and selfhood. Canadian identity has historically been linked to a dual notion of culture traceable to the French and English strains of Canada's colonial past. Erin Managing subverts this binary through readings that shift our attention from nationalist constructions of identity and territory to a more radical and pluralizing understanding of the political. As she brings together issues specific to Canada (such as Quebec separatism and Canadian landscape painting) and concerns that are more transnational (such as globalization and immigration), Manning emphasizes the truly cross-cultural nature of the problems of racism, gender discrimination, and homelessness. Thus this impassioned reading of Canadian texts also makes an important contribution to philosophical, cultural, and political discourses across the globe.
Tribes And Territories In The 21st Century
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Author : Paul Trowler
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-01-25
Tribes And Territories In The 21st Century written by Paul Trowler and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-25 with Education categories.
The ‘tribes and territories’ metaphor for the cultures of academic disciplines and their roots in different knowledge characteristics has been used by those interested in university life and work since the early 1990s. This book draws together research, data and theory to show how higher education has gone through major change since then and how social theory has evolved in parallel. Together these changes mean there is a need to re-theorise academic life in a way which reflects changed contexts in universities in the twenty-first century, and so a need for new metaphors. Using a social practice approach, the editors and contributors argue that disciplines are alive and well, but that in a turbulent environment where many other forces conditioning academic practices exist, their influence is generally weaker than before. However, the social practice approach adopted in the book highlights how this influence is contextually contingent – how disciplines are deployed in different ways for different purposes and with varying degrees of purchase. This important book pulls together the latest thinking on the subject and offers a new framework for conceptualising the influences on academic practices in universities. It brings together a distinguished group of scholars from across the world to address questions such as: Have disciplines been displaced by inter-disciplinarity, having outlived their usefulness? Have other forces acting on the academy pushed disciplines into the background as factors shaping the practices of academics and students there? How significant are disciplinary differences in teaching and research practices? What is their significance in other areas of work in universities? This timely book addresses a pressing concern in modern education, and will be of great interest to university professionals, managers and policy-makers in the field of higher education.
People States Territories
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Author : Rhys Jones
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2011-07-26
People States Territories written by Rhys Jones and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-26 with Social Science categories.
People/States/Territories examines the role of state personnel in shaping, and being shaped by, state organizations and territories, and demonstrates how agents have actively contributed to the reproduction and transformation of the British state over the long term. A valuable corrective to recent characterizations of territory as a static and given geographical concept An explication of the political geographies of state reproduction and transformation, through its focus on state territoriality and the variegated character of state power Considerable empirical insight into the consolidation of the British state over the long term.
Encountering Development
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Author : Arturo Escobar
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2012
Encountering Development written by Arturo Escobar and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Business & Economics categories.
Originally published: 1995. Paperback reissue, with a new preface by the author.