Arturo Escobar

Title

Arturo Escobar

Rights

Image used with author's permission. Photograph credit to Kristen Chavez, UNC-CH College of Arts and Sciences.

Birthplace

Manizales, Colombia

Primary Sources

Escobar, A., Osterweil, M.,Sharma, K. (2024). 
Relationality: An emergent politics of life beyond the human. Bloomsbury Visual Arts. https://www.bloomsbury.com/au/relationality-9781350225992/

Escobar, A. (2023). Welcome to possibility studies. Possibility Studies & Society, 1(1-2), 56-59. https://doi.org/10.1177/27538699231171450

Escobar, A. (2020). Pluriversal politics: The real and the possible. Duke University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctv11315v0 

Escobar, A. (2018). Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822371816 

Escobar, A. (2019). Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South. In de Sousa Santos, B., & Meneses, M. (Eds.), Knowledges born in the struggle (pp. 41-57). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429344596

Escobar, A. (2008). Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes. Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1198wg2

Escobar, A. (2004). Beyond the Third World: Imperial Globality, Global Coloniality and Anti-Globalisation Social Movements. Third World Quarterly, 25(1), 207–230. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3993785

Escobar, A. (2001). Culture sits in places: Refections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization. Political Geography, 20, 139–174. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0962-6298(00)00064-0

Alvarez, S. E. (2019, 1998). Cultures of politics/politics of cultures: Revisioning Latin American social movements. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429501135

Escobar, A. (1995). Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (STU-Student edition). Princeton University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt7rtgw

Escobar, A. (1992). Imagining a Post-Development Era? Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements. Social Text, 31/32, 20–56. https://doi.org/10.2307/466217

Secondary Sources

Batterbury, S.P.J & Fernando, J. (2024). Arturo Escobar. Key thinkers on space and place. London, pp 113-120, London:Sage.

Segal, R., Jahn, M. M., Bidart, M., Escobar, A., Hardt, M., Lindsay, G., Nembhard, J. G., Poo, A., & Scholz, T. (2023). Design and Solidarity: Conversations on Collective Futures. Columbia University Press. http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/sega20404

Ogden, L. A. (2021). Arturo Escobar: A Figure. In Loss and Wonder at the World’s End (pp. 44–46). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv1xg5hs0.7

Mignolo, W. D., & Escobar, A. (Eds.). (2010). Globalization and the Decolonial Option (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315868448

Extra Resources

Arturo Escobar and Marisol Cortez, Deceleration, March 30, 2023, Youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AERe A0BUXEg&t =1842s

Arturo Escobar, Why are communities key to transforming the world. EXALT Iniative, Podcast, University of Helsinki, Hosts: Christopher Chagnon and Sophia Hagolani-Albov, June 25, 2021
https://anchor.fm/exalt-initiative/episodes/Arturo-Escobar---Why-are-communities-key-to-transforming-theworld-e13bp5a; https://radiopublic.com/exalt-podcast-6vY0Rl

09.28.21 Arturo Escobar ft. WAI Think Tank: Pluriversal Designing and the Re-Earthing of Cities. October 1, 2021. The Cooper Union Arch Archive. Vimeo. Accessed June 10, 2022. https://vimeo.com/620328527

Research Center for Material Culture. Accessed June 10, 2022. https://www.materialculture.nl/en/about

Citation

“Arturo Escobar,” Decoloniality, First Nations Thinkers and thought and practices from the Global South, accessed April 22, 2025, https://omeka.cloud.unimelb.edu.au/decoloniality-and-thinkers-from-the-global-south/items/show/754.

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