Encountering Development : The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

By A. Escobar. 1994

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Re-imagining Algorithmic Fairness in India and Beyond (2021, background): “A decolonial perspective (borrowed from Latin American and African scholars like [66, 70, 72, 134, 210]) helps us confront inequalities from colonisation in India, providing new openings for knowledge and justice in AI fairness research.”
Exploring Social Capital Debates at the World Bank (2004, methodology): “Critical development studies in the 1990s were marked by two books: James Ferguson’s The Anti-Politics Machine [Ferguson, 1990, 1994] and Arturo Escobar’s Encountering Development [Escobar, 1995].”
Social Justice-Oriented Interaction Design: Outlining Key Design Strategies and Commitments (2016, background): “Recent critiques have argued for the need to re-politicize design and engineering practices, especially in the ways that designers and researchers identify and frame problems [82], to rethink assumptions about what makes ‘poverty’ a thing to fix [66, 45], and to be wary of perpetuating already-uneve”
The Handbook of Neoliberalism (2016, background): “emergence of the ‘economy’ as a site for intervention (Escobar 1995; Mitchell 1998) it reveals”
Community Driven Development, Collective Action and Elite Capture in Indonesia (2007, background): “Community driven development is part of a broader paradigm shift responding to the well-documented critiques of top-down, modernist and authoritarian approaches that have dominated development over the last fifty years (Escobar, 1995; Holston, 1989; Kabeer, 1994; Mitchell, 2002; Scott, 1998).”
Cultural economic geography and a relational and microspace approach to trusts, rationalities, networks, and change in collaborative workplaces (2003, background): “The adoption of a non-essentialist view of the world prompts a recognition of hybridity, multiple realities operating concurrently in a place ( Escobar, 1995 ).”