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Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes
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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 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 biodiver…
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“The fluid and mobile dynamics of tides and rain along the Gulf of Tribugá have shaped the lives of human and nonhuman inhabitants, not only as the background of spatial practices, but anchoring them material and symbolic socionatural worlds (Escobar 2008, 42-43).”
From Fluid geographies: marine territorialisation and the scaling up of local aquatic epistemologies on the pacific coast of Colombia (2018) · cites this paper as Escobar 2008
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“Capital accumulation processes extended along the Pacific region, including industrial fishing, logging, mangrove bark and timber extraction, petroleum exploration, mining, and cultivation of banana, cacao, rice, sugar cane, and African palm (Escobar 2008, 75;Restrepo 2013).”
From Fluid geographies: marine territorialisation and the scaling up of local aquatic epistemologies on the pacific coast of Colombia (2018) · cites this paper as Escobar 2008, 75
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“Epistemic plurality exists not only onshore (Escobar 2008) but also offshore within the state's complex territorialisation of the region.”
From Fluid geographies: marine territorialisation and the scaling up of local aquatic epistemologies on the pacific coast of Colombia (2018) · cites this paper as Escobar 2008
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“Thus, the territories of subalterns have been considered as spaces of divergence (Lopes de Souza 2015) and resistance (Escobar 2008;Oslender 2008Oslender , 2016;;Manc ¸ano Fernandes 2009, 2010;Agnew and Oslender 2010;Bryan 2012;Porto Gonc ¸alves 2012;Zibechi 2012).”
From Maroon Socioterritorial Movements (2022) · cites this paper as Escobar 2008
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“With some exceptions in Brazil (P erez-Wilke 2014;da Costa Segovia et al. 2015), the Colombian Pacific region (Escobar 2008;Oslender 2016), and Ecuador (Vela-Almeida et al. 2020), Blackness, and in particular the maroon heritage of specific Afrodescendant communities, has been excluded from the analyses of counterhegemonic territories.”
From Maroon Socioterritorial Movements (2022) · cites this paper as Escobar 2008
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“With the exceptions of Brazil and Colombia, the study of African descendants has not paid sufficient attention to their spatial practices, an analysis of which would afford insights into contemporary strategies of political resistance (Escobar 2008;Oslender 2008Oslender , 2016;;P erez-Wilke 2014;da Costa Segovia et al. 2015; Lombard, Hern andez-Garc ıa, and Salgado-Ram ırez 2021).”
From Maroon Socioterritorial Movements (2022) · cites this paper as Escobar 2008
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- Escobar, A.
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