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Book Reviews The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 8494 Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes ARTURO ESCOBAR Durham, Duke University Press, 2008 xviii  435pp., bibliography, index, ISBN: 978-0-8223-4327-1, $54.50 (paper) At the core of this book is an argument for valuing local knowledge produced by social movements involved in place-based struggles for land, resources and livelihoods. The book questions the dominant regimes of modernity and develop- ment that are founded on capitalist relations and reductionist science and technology, and makes an important contribution to development studies, anthropology, geography and cognate fields by problematising the production of knowledge itself. The author is concerned with how processes and consequences of globalisation have been represented in social theory, arguing that ‘the tendency today is to state that globalization has rendered place irrelevant, meaningless, or at least secondary in the constitution of places and regions’ (p. 30). Escobar brings activists’ knowledge into conversation with academic knowledge and theory development to promote new ways of thinking, visioning and enacting regional development via what he terms a ‘politics of difference’. The book’s regional focus is the Colombian Pacific. Much of the ethnographic research presented stems from Escobar’s long-term http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Taylor & Francis

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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 8494 Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes ARTURO ESCOBAR Durham, Duke University Press, 2008 xviii  435pp., bibliography, index, ISBN: 978-0-8223-4327-1, $54.50 (paper) At the core of this book is an argument for valuing local knowledge produced by social movements involved in place-based struggles for land, resources and livelihoods. The book questions the dominant regimes of modernity and develop-...
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The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology Vol. 11, No. 1, March 2010, pp. 8494 Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes ARTURO ESCOBAR Durham, Duke University Press, 2008 xviii  435pp., bibliography, index, ISBN: 978-0-8223-4327-1, $54.50 (paper) At the core of this book is an argument for valuing local knowledge produced by social movements involved in place-based struggles for land, resources and livelihoods. The book questions the dominant regimes of modernity and develop- ment that are founded on capitalist relations and reductionist science and technology, and makes an important contribution to development studies, anthropology, geography and cognate fields by problematising the production of knowledge itself. The author is concerned with how processes and consequences of globalisation have been represented in social theory, arguing that ‘the tendency today is to state that globalization has rendered place irrelevant, meaningless, or at least secondary in the constitution of places and regions’ (p. 30). Escobar brings activists’ knowledge into conversation with academic knowledge and theory development to promote new ways of thinking, visioning and enacting regional development via what he terms a ‘politics of difference’. The book’s regional focus is the Colombian Pacific. Much of the ethnographic research presented stems from Escobar’s long-term

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