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

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  • Sara Arab

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

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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.

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  • Sara Arab, 2018. "Book review – Arturo Escobar. Encountering development: the making and unmaking of the third world, Princeton University Press, 1995.1," Review of Applied Socio-Economic Research, Pro Global Science Association, vol. 15(1), pages 64-66, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:rse:wpaper:v:15:y:2018:i:1:p:64-66
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    food dependency; sustainable development; women's development and grassroots development;
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