- Professor
- Date
- Monday 4 Jun 2018, 16:00 - 17:30
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Aula B
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
Development Research Seminar by professor Arturo Escobar, Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Background
World renowned post development thinker Professor Arturo Escobar presents his retrospective vision of the life of development. After summarizing current debates on postdevelopment, he examines practices and proposals which are taking peoples and environments beyond development, such as Buen Vivir and a range of other alternatives to development. His talk is based on his decades-long critical engagement with development as well his current project on civilizational transitions in the age of design (see his new book Designs for the Pluriverse) and the forthcoming Postdevelopment Dictionary, which he co-edited. The event will be filmed for future use in the ISS General Course, the 'Making of Development,' and is linked to the 2018 Decolonizing Development Studies Network (DDSN) Seminars.
About the speaker
Arturo Escobar is the Kenan Teaching Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Was born in Colombia, and started his university education with degrees in biochemistry and food sciences in both Colombia and the United States before receiving his PhD in the Philosophy, Policy and Planning of Development from the University of California, Berkeley.
In addition to his professorship at Chapel Hill, Professor Escobar also holds multiple research positions across the Americas. A crucial theorist in post development thought, he writes extensively on the anthropology of development, ontological design, social movements, political ecology, and critical perspectives of modernity, science and technology.