Book review – Arturo Escobar. Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the third world, Princeton University Press, 1995.1

Sara Arab ()
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Sara Arab: 1st year Masters in International History candidate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland

Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, 2018, vol. 15, issue 1, 64-66

Abstract: Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World (1995) is a celebrated and renowned work of Arturo Escobar. Born and brought up in Columbia, Escobar is a notable Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. The text is built upon the foundations of Escobar's doctoral dissertation titled Power and Visibility: The Invention and Management of Development in the Third World (1987). This ground-breaking work was conferred with the Best Book Award by the New England Council of Latin American Studies in 1996.

Keywords: food dependency; sustainable development; women's development and grassroots development (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Y3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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