Displacement, Development, and Modernity in the Colombian Pacific
Author(s)
Escobar, Arturo
Abstract
The paper’s argument, in a nutshell, is that displacement is an integral element of Eurocentric modernity and its post-World War II manifestation in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, namely, development. Both modernity and development are spatial-cultural projects that require the continuous conquest of territories and peoples and their ecological and cultural transformation along the lines of a rational, logocentric order.
