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Graber (2008-09) |
Arturo Escobar - (2007-2008) Arturo Escobar, a Colombian and U.S. citizen, is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology and former director of the Institute of Latin American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are related to political ecology; the anthropology of development and social movements; and Latin American development and politics. Escobar's research uses critical techniques in his provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general. He also explores possibilities for alternative visions for a post-development era. He is a major figure in the post-development academic discourse, and a serious critic of development practices championed by western industrialized societies. Escobar's most recent work focuses on social movements, nature and the environment, and how places and regions struggle for difference and diversity under globalization. Escobar's work broadens our understanding of globalization and the processes of modernity, highlighting the importance of place, colonialism, and alternatives to the hegemony of Eurocentric knowledge and development. Professor Escobar was in residence at the UO for the first three weeks of winter term, 2008. He co-taught an anthropology course, Anthropologies of Development and Social Movements, with Professor Lynn Stephen, and gave a public address, “Left Turn? Right Turn? Where is Latin America Going?” on January 31, 2008. Escobar's public address was part of a three-day 2008 Violence and Reconciliation in Latin America Conference held on the University of Oregon campus. Escobar’s paper based on this talk, Latin America at a Crossroads: Alternative Modernizations, Postliberalism, or Postdevelopment? was completed in 2009.
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