Arturo Escobar

Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Distinguished Teaching Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His authored books include PLANEACION, PARTICIPACION Y DESARROLLO (2002) and ENCOUNTERING DEVELOPMENT: THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF THE THIRD WORLD (1995). His edited books are (w/ Sonia Alvarez) THE MAKING OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA: IDENTITY, STRATEGY, AND DEMOCRACY (1992) and (w/ Sonia Alvarez and Evelina Dagnino) CULTURES OF POLITICS/POLITICS OF CULTURES: REVISIONING LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (1988).