{"title":"Arturo Escobar","description":"\u003cp\u003eArturo Escobar's works explore critical perspectives on development, culture, and society, inviting readers to rethink conventional approaches to progress and human relationships. His writing combines insightful analysis with a focus on \u003cem\u003erelationality\u003c\/em\u003e and the interconnectedness of communities and environments.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese books offer a compelling blend of education and culture, ideal for readers interested in transformative ideas within the social sciences and the arts. Escobar challenges dominant paradigms, encouraging a deeper understanding of how knowledge and power shape our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"relationality-by-arturo-escobar-9781350225961","title":"Relationality","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis important new book argues that at the root of the contemporary crisis of climate, energy, food, inequality, and meaning is a certain core presupposition that structures the ways in which we live, think, act and \u003cem\u003edesign\u003c\/em\u003e: the assumption of dualism, or the fundamental separateness of things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors contend that the key to constructing livable worlds lies in the cultivation of ways of knowing and acting based on a profound awareness of the fundamental interdependence of everything that exists – what they refer to as \u003cem\u003erelationality\u003c\/em\u003e. This shift in paradigm is necessary for healing our bodies, ecosystems, cities, and the planet at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book follows two interwoven threads of argumentation: on the one hand, it explains and exemplifies the modes of operation and the dire consequences of non-relational living; on the other, it elucidates the nature of relationality and explores how it is embodied in transformative practices in multiple spheres of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe authors provide an instructive account of the philosophical, scientific, social, and political sources of relational theory and action, with the aim of illuminating the transition from living within seemingly ineluctable ‘toxic loops’ of unrelational living (based on ontological dualism), to living within ‘relational weaves’ which we might co-create with multiple human and nonhuman others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432116437228,"sku":"9781350225961","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781350225961.jpg?v=1774556823"},{"product_id":"encountering-development-by-arturo-escobar-9780691150451","title":"Encountering Development","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow did the industrialised nations of North America and Europe come to be seen as the appropriate models for post-World War II societies in Asia, Africa, and Latin America? How did the postwar discourse on development actually create the so-called Third World? And what will happen when development ideology collapses?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo answer these questions, Arturo Escobar shows how development policies became mechanisms of control that were just as pervasive and effective as their colonial counterparts. The development apparatus generated categories powerful enough to shape the thinking even of its occasional critics while poverty and hunger became widespread.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDevelopment\u003c\/em\u003e was not even partially \"deconstructed\" until the 1980s, when new tools for analysing the representation of social reality were applied to specific \"Third World\" cases. Here Escobar deploys these new techniques in a provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general, concluding with a discussion of alternative visions for a postdevelopment era.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEscobar emphasises the role of economists in development discourse—his case study of Colombia demonstrates that the economisation of food resulted in ambitious plans, and more hunger. To depict the production of knowledge and power in other development fields, the author shows how peasants, women, and nature became objects of knowledge and targets of power under the \"gaze of experts.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn a substantial new introduction, Escobar reviews debates on globalisation and postdevelopment since the book's original publication in 1995 and argues that the concept of postdevelopment needs to be redefined to meet today's significantly new conditions. He then calls for the development of a field of \"pluriversal studies,\" which he illustrates with examples from recent Latin American movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47558917882092,"sku":"9780691150451","price":79.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780691150451-encountering-development.jpg?v=1776921719"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/arturo-escobar.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}