Arturo Escobar

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"Information Beyond Modernity: Globalization and Difference"

March 3, 2006

Professor Arturo Escobar presented "Information Beyond Modernity: Globalization and Difference" on March 3, 2006. Professor Escobar is a Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Professor Escobar delivered his remarks during the opening session of the Informatics Goes Global: Methods at a Crossroads conference which was held March 3-4, 2006 at IUB.

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Criteria for thinking about globalization in different ways "Relationship between social reality, social theory and our idea of what is to be done"
Three main ways to think about globalization
Globalcentric frameworks
Geopolitics of knowledge frameworks
Diversity
Political ecology
Flat Alternatives
Doing away with scales
Informatics going global
Concept of ontological design
Distuitive movements
Open question
Ethnographies
Questions about information going global Conclusion