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Sustainability: Design for the pluriverse

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Arturo Escobar is a Kenan Distinguished Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and associate editor of Development. His research interests are related to political ecology; the anthropology of development, social movements; Latin American development and politics. Escobar′s research uses critical techniques in his provocative analysis of development discourse and practice in general. He also explores possibilities for alternative visions for a post-development era. He is a major figure in the post-development academic discourse, and a serious critic of development practices championed by western industrialized societies.

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Looks at how to make sustainability less illusory and more tangible

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Escobar, A. Sustainability: Design for the pluriverse. Development 54, 137–140 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1057/dev.2011.28

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