Arturo Escobar and Political Ecology Term Paper by Top Papers

The paper relates that Arturo Escobar is a Columbian-born professor of anthropology, focusing on the burgeoning field of political ecology, an interdisciplinary study informed by the related fields of political economy and cultural ecology. The paper looks at how his scholarly work has delved into this intersection between politics and ecology and in the process has elucidated such topics as the evolution of indigenous social movements, analyses of the various constructed discourses of "development" and their implications for local populations, and the politics of such discourse in Latin America and elsewhere.