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  • ALICE Interview 17 – Inês Macamo Raimundo – Bruno Sena Martins
    Interview in Portuguese https://youtu.be/y4rCSi7pT0I Short description: Inês Macamo Raimundo explains that the main factors in forced displacement in Mozambique have been more recently, natural disasters, forcing many Mozambicans have more than one residence, often crossing national borders. In her...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Why Epistemologies of the South?
    Vídeo in Portuguese: Seminário Avançado, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 27 de Março de 2014. Com base no trabalho desenvolvido pelo Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos nos últimos anos, esta aula permitiu uma apresentação das Epistemologias do Sul enquanto procedimentos par...
  • ALICE Interview 14 – Ebrima Sall – Maria Paula Meneses 17/03/2014
    Interview in English.   Biography: Ebrima Sall is the Executive Secretary of CODESRIA. Before his appointment as Executive Secretary, CODESRIA in April 2009, Dr Sall was Senior Researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) in Uppsala (Sweden) and Director of the Centre for the Promotio...
  • ALICE Interview 13 – Mark Goodale – Bruno Sena Martins 12/03/2014
    Interview in English.   Biography: Mark Goodale is an anthropologist, sociolegal scholar, and social theorist. In August 2014, he was appointed Professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology (professeur ordinaire) at the University of Lausanne. Before moving to UNIL, he was on the faculty of Ge...
  • Which kind of State can deliver which kind of development?
    Boaventura de Sousa Santos 17 February 2014 Title: Which kind of State can deliver which kind of development? Venue: Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Center, New Delhi. Audience: Professors, Researchers, Journalists, Activists and Students of various Universities (Public and Private, such as Jindal ...
  • The Memory of the Future
    Lecture by Boaventura de Sousa Santos on 7 June 2013 at Fundação Mário Soares, Lisbon. Conference series: “Memory and Citizenship”. Video in Portuguese:     ...
  • Cultural Agenda – ALICE Colloquium 2014
    Short Video Presentation of the Cultural events which are part of the International Colloquium ALICE. More info on the Cultural Programme: http://alice.ces.uc.pt/coloquio_alice//index.php/cultural-programme/?lang=en Video In Portuguese. ...
  • ALICE Interview 12 – Paul Singer – Aline Mendonça 03/04/2014
    Interview in Portuguese Economista e professor universitário brasileiro nascido na Áustria, Paul Israel Singer é um grande exemplo de intelectual militante. Antes mesmo de sua carreira acadêmica, já havia um grande envolvimento político em sua trajetória: como migrante refugiado, como trabal...
  • Hospitality to the ghost: Disabled Veterans and the Portuguese Colonial War
    Video Documentary in Portuguese by: Bruno Sena Martins Sinopse: O silenciamento da Guerra Colonial portuguesa (1961-194) constitui um dos elementos mais estruturantes da reconstrução democrática e pós-imperial da sociedade portuguesa. Partindo de uma extensa recolha de histórias de vida de “D...
  • Poison is Served II
    Film in Portuguese below, introduction: O Brasil é o maior consumidor de agrotóxicos do planeta e a cada dia se torna mais dependente deles. A cada ano, cerca de 500 mil pessoas são contaminadas, segundo o Sistema Único de Saúde (SUS) e estimativas da Organização Mundial da Saúde (OMS). Os b...
  • Voices from/to Mother Earth
    Video in Spanish. Si pudieras hablarle a la Madre Tierra (Pachamama), ¿qué le dirías? O mejor: ¿qué nos estará diciendo ella a nosotros? Hicimos estas preguntas a las y los participantes en el taller de la Universidad Popular de los Movimientos Sociales (UPMS) en Bolivia (octubre de 2013), re...
  • Is possible to occupy the law?
      5 February 2014 Boaventura de Sousa Santos Title: Is it possible to occupy the Law ? Venue: Center for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Audience: Professors, Researchers (Post-Doc) and Doctoral and Master Students of Jawaharlal Nehru University (...
  • Boaventura – Descolonise Social Sciences
    Boaventura – Decolonise Social Sciences Inaugural Conference of the II Congress of Contemporary History Organized by the Network of Contemporary History (http://histcontemp.pt). Universidade de Évora – Colégio do Espírito Santo (Évora University – College of the Holy Spirit) &#...
  • Interview by Canal Saúde to Boaventura de Sousa Santos
    Paulo Belardi interviews Boaventura de Sousa Santos on UPMS and social movements. Recording of May 5, 2012 by Health Channel (Canal Saúde) television channel of the Public Health System (SUS) in Brazil. Video in Portuguese: ...
  • The revolution of indignation and democratic struggles
    The conference ‘The revolution of indignation and democratic struggles’ (A revolução das indignações e as lutas democráticas) was held with Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Frei Betto and the Marilena Chaui. The meeting was organised by Cortez Editora. Topic of the discussion was  human...
  • Micro-credit Initiative by 500 women in Uganda
    Micro-credit initiative. In the largest lipdub of Africa, 500 women dance to ‘Price Tag’ by Jessie J ft. B.o.B. Every single one of these strong and resourceful women has started a business of her own. Their dream is to show you and Jessie J how this has impacted their lives! ...
  • Whither Brazil?
    International Seminar ‘Whither Brazil?’. With the participation of Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Leonardo Avritzer (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais), José Carlos de Vasconcelos (journalist and writer), Carlos Vianna (Casa do Brasil) and Flávia Carlet (PhD Candidate at the Unive...
  • Interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos by Boaventura Monjane
    You may watch Boaventura de Sousa Santos talking about the ‘curse of plenty’ (or the Dutch Disease). This statement was recorded last July, during his stay in Mozambique in order to participate in the Universidade Popular dos Movimentos Sociais workshop of Mumemo. Interview credits belon...
  • HORTUS / SALÃO UTÓPICO – Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Helena Freitas
    23 May 2013, Jardim Botânico – Coimbra In “2084″, one or more speakers from fields as diverse as science, politics or philosophy, discuss and debate with the audience two different visions of the near future (2020 to 2084). An invitation to practice and exercise utopia in an informal sett...
  • UPMS Leiria | February 2013
    Popular University of Social Movements (UPMS) workshop of Leiria. It took place in February 2013 under the subject Letters to the Europeans. ...
  • ALICE Interview 05 – Peter deSouza – José Manuel Mendes – 05-12-2012
    Interview in English. Biography: Professor deSouza taught in the Political Science Department at Goa University for 16 years. He was head of the Department from 1996 to 2002. He was a member of the International Political Science Association’s Research Committees on Political Philosophy and P...
  • ALICE Advanced Seminar – Alberto Gomes – ALICE in Indigenous Wonderland
    Video in English Coimbra, 2013-01-24 My presentation will focus on the question of how might the ‘surprising lessons’ from the ‘strange mirrors’ of Indigenous onto-epistemology contribute to the quest for alternative epistemologies and visions for sustainable futures.  More than three d...
  • Environmental question
    Interview with Boaventura de Sousa Santos on the sidelines of a meeting organized by Associazione a Sud “New paradigms of civilization” at the Summit of the Peoples for social and environmental justice, June 19, 2012, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. Interview in Spanish. ...
  • Alice Interview 08 – José Tasat – Toni Aguilò – 05-02-2013
      In this interview, José Tasat presents the main lines that form the philosophical thought of Rodolfo Kusch, contextualizing it within the philosophy of Argentinian and Latin America critical thinking in general. Professor Tasat reflects critically on the Eurocentric matrix of epistemologies ...
  • An image of the social scientist and activist from Brazil
    Original title “Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Cientista e Ativista Social“. This video shows some moments of the “Disquiet Questions of Our Times” lecture with Boaventura de Sousa Santos at the University of Brasília and the Felicitation Ceremony of Honoris Causa Degree by the same Un...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Aula de Inquietação
    Video in Portuguese: “Disquiet Questions of Our Times” (Aula de Inquietação), lecture with Boaventura de Sousa Santos, October 30th 2012, Campus Darcy Ribeiro Arena Theater, Brasília. In the University of Brasília, at the beginning of each new semester, students are received with a lecture t...
  • Alice Interview 07 – Alberto Gomes – Maria Paula Meneses – 25/01/2013
    Alberto Gomes’s interview discussed at length how indigenous onto-epistemology can contribute to the quest for alternative epistemologies and visions for sustainable futures. In a dialogue with the epistemological project at the heart of ALICE project – the epistemologies of the south – Albert...
  • ALICE News is on! Visit our new website: alice.ces.uc.pt/news
    ALICE News is a portal of emergences. It aims to create spaces for encounter and exchange of information and opinion on plural possible alternatives and social emancipation. It takes place in the context of ALICE Project. Please, visit our open space to share ‘emancipatory’ content. An...
  • Videos of Boaventura de Sousa Santos in Brasilia
    Title of Doctor Honoris Causa a Boaventura de Sousa Santos from University of Brasilia, 12th October 2012 (Video in Portuguese). . . . Boaventura de Sousa Santos delivers opening Lecture at the University of Brasilia (Video in Portuguese). . See what people say about Alice… ...
  • César Rodríguez-Garavito – Action Research 2.0
    Original Title: Investigación-Acción 2.0: Un nuevo mapa para los investigadores-activistas en un mundo multimedia César Rodríguez-Garavito “Cátedra Boaventura de Sousa Santos de Ciências Sociais”, Coimbra 11 Dec 2012. Video in Spanish Short intro: La investigación-acción (IA) ha...
  • Happened in Iceland
    Can the democratization processes and citizenship demonstrations face economic, financial and social crisis? The reaction of people in Iceland shows that there are another ways to deal with debt problems far beyond cuts, impoverishment and all kinds of austerity measures. Video in French with subtit...
  • Sumak Kawsay – Caso Sarayaku (Ecuador)
    César Rodríguez Garavito documents the case of Sarayaku people in Ecuador where indigenous people rights were violated in favour of an Oil Company. Sarayaku Indigenous people brought this case in front of the Inter-American Court of human Rights which ruled in their favour and against the Ecuadori...
  • Presentation of Alice
    Short Presentation of the Alice Project in the dynamic Prezi format. Click on the arrow in order to go to the next slide or click inside the slide to zoom in. Preferred view: full screen. ...
  • Alternatives to Hegemonic Development
    Vandana Shiva is an indian ecofeminist scholar and a social activist. She presents her analysis and critics to the hegemonic development paradigm and shed light on concrete alternatives. It´s part of a TV programme (O Tempo e os Modos) produced by Portugal´s RTP 2 channel. Video in English (subtit...
  • Cristiano Gianolla Presentation at SISP Conference 2012
    Cristiano Gianolla Presented a Paper in the SISP Conference @ Università Roma Tre – Roma (Italy) – September 13, 2012 – September 15, 2012 Hereafter the Prezi presentation in Italian. Internet e ed il Patrimonio Comune dell’Umanitá on Prezi Cristiano Gianolla took part t...
  • Alice Interview 04 – Elisio Macamo – Fernando Goya Maldonado 05/06/2012
    In this interview, Elísio Macamo comments on broad thematic canon through the use of catchy phrases like the illusion that History is just a machine and there is life beyond the concepts we use. By applying a critical sociology, Elísio Macamo dissects the ambivalence of modernity in Africa imprint...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Human rights or Democratising Democracy?
    Advanced Seminar, in Portuguese. University of Coimbra School of Economics, 01.06.2012. Boaventura de Sousa Santos analyses the position of human rights within intercultural dialogue. The recognition of other grammars for human dignity poses a challenge to the western matrix on which human rights in...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Can constitutionalism be transformative?
    Advanced seminar, in Portuguese. University of Coimbra School of Economics, 25.05.2012. Boaventura de Sousa Santos examines questions relating to transformative constitutionalism, interculturality and the reform of the state. The failure of modern constitutionalism is analysed in the light of strugg...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Development or self-determination?
    Advanced seminar, in Portuguese. Coimbra 18.05.2012. Boaventura de Sousa Santos explores the economic alternatives to the endless accumulation of capitalism and the destruction of the environment. The study of non-capitalist forms of organisation, within the perspective of a plural economy, includes...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Toward a socio-legal theory of indignation
    Boaventura de Sousa Santos Lecture at Leverhulme, London 30 April 2012. Audio file in English. Topic: Toward a socio-legal theory of indignation Boaventura de Sousa Santos analyses how struggles to extend democracy can be linked to law as a tool for social emancipation. This involves examining how ...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Seven threats and seven challenges
    Boaventura de Sousa Santos Lecture at Leverhulme, London 25 April 2012. Audio file in English. Topic: Seven threats and seven challenges In the view of Boaventura de Sousa Santos there are seven major threats facing the popular classes around the world. They take different forms in different region...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Towards a socio-legal theory of indignation
    Advanced seminar, in Portuguese. University of Coimbra School of Economics, 17.04.2012. Boaventura de Sousa Santos analyses how struggles to extend democracy can be linked to law as a tool for social emancipation. This involves examining how emancipatory practices mobilise legality and institutional...
  • Entrevista a Aminata Traoré, en Casa África
      En esta entrevista, concedida a Casa África, la exministra de Cultura de Mali, escritora y activista alterglobalización Aminata Traoré habla desde una perspectiva crítica de las dificultades que atraviesa el proceso de descolonización de Mali cincuenta años después de la independencia...
  • Alice Interview 02 – Alberto Acosta – José Luis Exeni 29/03/2012
    Video in Spanish. Short description: In the interview Alberto Acosta talks about different topics related to the ongoing process of transformative constitutionalism in Ecuador, of which he is an actor as former president of the Constituent Assembly and leader of the left. He critically assesses the ...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Development or self determination?
    Boaventura de Sousa Santos Lecture at Leverhulme, London 21 March 2012. Audio file in English. Topic: Development or self-determination? Boaventura de Sousa Santos explores the economic alternatives to the endless accumulation of capitalism and the destruction of the environment. The study of non-ca...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Why Epistemologies of the south
    Boaventura de Sousa Santos Lecture at Leverhulme, London 15 March 2012. Audio file in English. Topic: Why Epistemologies of the south Boaventura de Sousa Santos takes as his starting point the idea that social experience throughout the world is much wider and more varied than western scientific or ...
  • Boaventura de Sousa santos – Why Epistemologies of the South?
    Advanced seminar, in Portuguese. University of Coimbra School of Economics, 09.03.2012. Boaventura de Sousa Santos takes as his starting point the idea that social experience throughout the world is much wider and more varied than western scientific or philosophical tradition understands or conside...
  • Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Interview on ALICE (Full)
    Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the ALICE Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video partially in English or with subtitles in English. List of asked question provided below. Questions: - Could you please make a short introduction about ALICE? Why ALICE? - What elements, tools, pro...
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