2026 Arturo Escobar: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	63	1133	993	524	449	180	38566

Research.com Recognitions

1997 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Arturo Escobar is affiliated with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the United States. Their research primarily spans the social sciences, with a significant focus on subfields such as sociology and political science, anthropology, pollution, political science and international relations, and plant science.

Their body of work covers multiple main topics including Latin American cultural politics, anthropological studies and insights, water governance and infrastructure, pesticide exposure and toxicity, pesticide and herbicide environmental studies, French urban and social studies, and agriculture, land use, and rural development.

Recent publications by Arturo Escobar include:

"Riverhood: political ecologies of socionature commoning and translocal struggles for water justice" (2022), published in The Journal of Peasant Studies
"Reframing civilization(s): from critique to transitions" (2021), published in Globalizations
"Política pluriversal: lo real y lo posible en el pensamiento crítico y las luchas latinoamericanas contemporáneas" (2020), published in Tabula rasa
"Welcome to possibility studies" (2023), published in Possibility Studies & Society
"On design, development and the axes of pluriversal politics: An interview with Arturo Escobar" (2022), published in Nordia Geographical Publications

Arturo Escobar frequently collaborates with several scholars including:

Susan Paulson
Mette Brodgen
James M. Greenberg
Hanne Svarstad
Michael R. Dove

Their work has been published repeatedly in venues such as Environmental Science and Pollution Research, DIID, Maguaré, Astrágalo Cultura de la Arquitectura y la Ciudad, and the UNC Libraries.

In addition to articles, their book publications include:

"Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups" (2020) with Rutgers University Press
"Relationality" (2024) with Bloomsbury Publishing plc
"Autonomie et design" (2020) with EuroPhilosophie Éditions eBooks

Among their recognitions, Arturo Escobar was named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1997.

Best Publications

Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World.

Susan Greenhalgh;Arturo Escobar

7644
Citations
Encountering Development: The Making and Unmaking of the Third World

Arturo Escobar

4134
Citations
Culture sits in places: reflections on globalism and subaltern strategies of localization

Arturo Escobar

1937
Citations
Cultures Of Politics/politics Of Cultures: Revisioning Latin American Social Movements

Sonia E. Alvarez;Evelina Dagnino;Arturo Escobar

1749
Citations
Designs for the Pluriverse: Radical Interdependence, Autonomy, and the Making of Worlds

Arturo Escobar

1583
Citations
After nature: Steps to an antiessentialist political ecology. Commentaries. Author's reply

A. Escobar;E. Berglund;J. P. Brosius;D. A. Cleveland

1046
Citations
Whose Knowledge, Whose nature? Biodiversity, Conservation, and the Political Ecology of Social Movements

Arturo Escobar

998
Citations
Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise: The Latin American Modernity/Coloniality Research Program

Arturo Escobar

914
Citations
Territories of Difference: Place, Movements, Life, Redes

Arturo Escobar

895
Citations
Globalization and the decolonial option

Walter D. Mignolo;Arturo Escobar

818
Citations
LATIN AMERICA AT A CROSSROADS

Arturo Escobar

751
Citations
Territorios de diferencia: Lugar, movimientos, vida, redes

Arturo Escobar

735
Citations
Beyond the Third World: imperial globality, global coloniality and anti-globalisation social movements

Arturo Escobar

732
Citations
Introduction: The Cultural and the Political in Latin American Social Movements

Sonia E. Alvarez;Evelina Dagnino;Arturo Escobar

602
Citations
The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy and Democracy

Neil Harvey;Arturo Escobar;Sonia E. Alvarez

550
Citations
Discourse and Power in Development: Michel Foucault and the Relevance of His Work to the Third World*

Arturo Escobar

524
Citations
Imagining a Post-Development Era? Critical Thought, Development and Social Movements

Unknown

506
Citations
Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation

Arturo Escobar;Arturo Escobar

487
Citations
Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South

Unknown

468
Citations
Welcome to Cyberia: Notes on the Anthropology of Cyberculture [and Comments and Reply]

Arturo Escobar;David Hess;Isabel Licha;Will Sibley

426
Citations
Pluriversal Politics: The Real and the Possible

Arturo Escobar

424
Citations
Anthropology and the development encounter: the making and marketing of development anthropology

Arturo Escobar

406
Citations
Power and Visibility: Development and the Invention and Management of the Third World

Arturo Escobar

378
Citations
Political Ecology Across Spaces, Scales, and Social Groups

Susan Paulson;Lisa L. Gezon;Arturo Escobar;Andrew Gardner

369
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Walter D. Mignolo Duke University

Susan Greenhalgh Harvard University

Mayer N. Zald University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

Marilyn Strathern University of Cambridge

Doug McAdam Stanford University

External Links

Wikipedia of Arturo Escobar Personal website of Arturo Escobar

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