Arturo Escobar is an activist-researcher from Cali, Colombia, working on territorial struggles against extractivism, postdevelopmentalist and post-capitalist transitions, and ontological design.
> Bio: see [resume pdf](https://anthropology.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2013/11/Escobar-resume-16.pdf), downloaded nov 2023.
Early papers
Escobar began to systematically develop the notion of pluriverse, as a pivot of post-development, decolonial practice and insight.
Escobar 2015, 'Commons in the pluriverse’, in Bollier & Helfrich eds (2015), *Patterns of commoning*, Heinrich Bōll Foundation. webpage 
. A copy is here: pdf
Escobar 2015, 'Degrowth, postdevelopment, and transitions: a preliminary conversation',
Peer to Peer Foundation, wiki
Takeup & expansion
As the commitment spread and deepened, pluriverse has become an important trope in decolonial thinking and practice.
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Kothari et al eds 2023, *Pluriverse - A post-development dictionary*, New Delhi: Tilika Books pdf
> A stimulating collection of over 100 essays on transformative alternatives to the currently dominant processes of globalized development, including its structural roots in modernity, capitalism, state domination, and masculinist values. In the post-development imagination, ‘development’ would no longer be the organizing principle of social life. The book presents worldviews and practices from around the world in a collective search for an ecologically wise and socially just world. It also offers critical essays on a number of false solutions that those in power are proposing in an attempt to ‘greenwash’ development. The 120+ contributors to the volume include activists, academics, and practitioners, with a wealth of experience in their respective fields of engagement.
> Overview: webpage