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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 – Insurgencies of indignation, social theory and political renewal
Vídeo in Portuguese: Seminário Avançado, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 7 de Julho de 2014. O tempo para esta aula é sobretudo o intervalo compreendido entre 2011 e 2013 através das revoltas e mobilizações ocorridas nesse período. O espaço de análise é alargado,a esc...
- ALICE Advanced Seminar – Sharit Bhowmik – Confronting Marginalisation of Urban Informal Workers
Video in English Coimbra, 2013-06-11 How democratic political action, can in some way, change the existing situation of marginalization of urban informal workers in India? The speaker has been working on this issue, as a researcher and as an activist, and has taken an initiative to motivate wome...
- ALICE Advanced Seminar – José Geraldo de Sousa Júnior – O legalismo da cultura jurídica na formação dos juristas como obstáculo a superar para o acesso democrático à justiça
José Geraldo de Sousa Júnior (Universidade de Brasília) Video in Portuguese: Coimbra, 2014-01-23 The seminar took place at Room 1 of the Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra, Portugal. Resumo Neste seminário, José Geraldo de Sousa Junior analisará o legalismo da cultura jurídica na formaçã...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – From the Alternative Development to Development Alternatives
Vídeo in Portuguese: Seminário Avançado, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 30 de Junho de 2014. Será suficiente um pensamento alternativo de alternativas? Esta é a indagação fundamental que percorre esta aula magistral. Para resposta à mesma e tal como é evidenciado, torn...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – What are South-South Dialogues and what are they Worth?
Vídeo in Portuguese: Seminário Avançado, Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, 21 de Março de 2014. Através de uma apurada contextualização histórica e incluindo múltiplas dimensões de geopolítica do conhecimento, o Prof. Boaventura de Sousa Santos, nesta aula, percorre os ...
- 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 Advanced Seminar – Valentim Y. Mudimbe – Archaeology of Practices of Philosophy in Africa
Video in English Coimbra, 2013-06-18 V.Y. Mudimbe is a philosopher, professor, and author of books and articles about African culture, poems, and novels. He is currently the Newman Ivey White Professor of Literature at Duke University. His research focuses most closely on phenomenology, structu...
- ALICE Interview 15 – Rosalva Aída Hernández – Élida Lauris 20/03/2014
Interview in Spanish. Rosalva Aída Hernández earned her doctorate in anthropology from Stanford University in 1996. She is currently a Professor and Senior Researcher at CIESAS, the Center for Research and Advanced Studies in Social Anthropology in Mexico City. Her research interests cove...
- 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: ...
- ALICE Colloquium – Video of the Inaugural Session
Inaugural Session of ALICE International Colloquium “Epistemologies of the South” by Boaventura de Sousa Santos: For more info on the Colloquium click here. ...
- 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...
- Epistemologies of the South: South-South Dialogues and Intercultural Translations
Boaventura de Sousa Santos 13 February 2014 Title: Epistemologies of the South: South-South Dialogues and Intercultural Translations Venue: J M Kumarappa Hall, Naoroji Campus, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Audience: Professors, Researchers (Post-Doc) and Doctoral and Master Students of...
- 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 (...
- ALICE Interview 11 – José Geraldo de Sousa Junior – Flávia Carlet 23/01/2014
Interview in Portuguese Short Description: José Geraldo de Sousa Junior’s doctor in “Law and State Constitution” from the University of Brasilia (UnB) and professor at the Faculty of law of the UnB, since 1985. Is one of the authors and, currently, the main references in the coun...
- Epistemologies of the South: South-South Dialogues and Intercultural Translations
4 February 2014 Lecture Title: “Epistemologies of the South: South-South Dialogues and Intercultural Translations” Venue: Developing Countries Research Center, University of Delhi, Delhi. Audience: Professors, Researchers (Post-Doc) and Doctoral and Master Students of Delhi Unive...
- ALICE Advanced Seminar – Ebrima Sall – “The Study of Africa in a Multipolar World – A Perspective from Within”
Video in English: Coimbra, 2014-03-17 Summary: in a paper he presented at a Conference co-organized and hosted by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in January 2013, Achille Mbembe, a one-time executive secretary of the Council, drew our attention to one...
- 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) ...
- ALICE Advanced Seminar – Oscar Guardiola Rivera – Story of a death foretold: the coup against Allende, 11 September 1973
Oscar Guardiola-Rivera (Birkbeck College | University of London) Video in English: Coimbra 2013-11-14 The seminar took place at Room 1 of the Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra, Portugal. For more information about this event, please click on this link. ...
- UPMS Workshop of Brasilia “The Humans Rights in Movement: the Organisations, the Institutions, and the Street”
Popular University of Social Movement (UPMS). Workshop on “The Humans Rights in Movement: the Organisations, the Institutions, and the Street” held in Brasilia (Brazil) on 1-4 November. Workshop organised by Conselho Nacional do Ministério Público (Brasilian Natioal Council of Publi...
- Boaventura interviewed in “Conversations with Life” (ETV)
Interview by Tânia Madeira (ETV). Video in Portuguese: ...
- Boaventura in RTP Radio on the danger for the Pillar of State Security
22 Nov, 2013, 09:12 Audio in Portuguese: http://www.rtp.pt/noticias/index.php?article=697661&tm=8&layout=123&visual=61 ...
- 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: ...
- Recent Events and Elections in Mozambique, a Comment by Professor Maria Paula Meneses
A commentary by Professor Maria Paula Meneses (CES/ALICE Project) about the recent events in Mozambique and the next elections on 20 November. Alternative information for a more complete and rigorous point of view about an important part of the current political reality of this country. Video reco...
- 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! ...
- Create the Counter-University in the University, Boaventura and Enrique Dussel at UACM, Mexico
“Create the Counter-University in the University” (Crear la contra-universidad dentro de la universidad) Boaventura and Enrique Dussel at UACM, Mexico. 11 October 2013. Video in Spanish. ...
- Boaventura being interviewed by Jean-Marc Coicaud, the director of the United Nations University Office
An interview for the United Nations University made available in the UNU official channel last September. Prof. Boaventura had the chance to depict ALICE. The interview started under the topic of the reinvention of social emancipation as a call for new ideas. Living in a world that is full of innov...
- 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...
- ALICE Advanced Seminar – Valentin Mudimbe – Archaeology of Practices of Philosophy in Africa
Valentin Y. Mudimbe (Duke University) The seminar took place at Room 1 of the Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra, Portugal, in June 18, 2013. For more information about this event, please click on this link. Video in English: ...
- ALICE Advanced Seminar – Sharit Bhowmik – Confronting Marginalisation of Urban Informal Workers
Sharit Bhowmik (Centre for Labour Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences – Mumbai, India). The seminar took place at Room 1 of CES, Coimbra, Portugal, in June 11, 2013. For more information about this event, please click on this link. Video in English: ...
- 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...
- A new Pope, a new Church? – Debate with Boaventura de Sousa Santos | May 2013
Debate on the May 21st 2013, in the Baroque library of the University of Coimbra. Video in portuguese. ...
- What would a democratic revolution of justice look like? – Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Jan 2013
Video of the 2nd Conference of the round “Cidadania e Desenvolvimento: a governação e a organização do sistema de justiça” (Citizenship and Development: the governance and the organisation of the legal system). Title: O que seria uma revolução democrática da justiça? (What woul...
- 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. ...
- Biennale Democracy – When the Constitution is Drafted by Citizen, Experiences Confronted
The President of the Icelandic Constituent Assembly, Salvor Nordal, gave a testimony on the experience of shared and participative constitutional drafting. His reflection expanded on how new technologies reinvigorated the constitutional process and to the drafting of the constitutions of Bolivia and...
- The formulation of Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos on ecology of knowledge is…
A statement from the famous Brazilian filmmaker Silvio Tendler at the Popular University of Social Movements workshop that occurred in Fortaleza. The workshop was organized by the Network of Ecology of Knowledge held and dedicated to, among other topics, a discussion on the Brazilian national health...
- 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 – José Alejandro Tasat – El pensamiento de Rodolfo Kusch
José Alejandro Tasat (Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero/UNTREF) Video in Spanish: Coimbra, 2013-02-05 Resumo El pensador argentino Rodolfo Kusch realiza aportes considerables, en torno de cuestiones como la cultura, el sujeto cultural, el suelo, el símbolo, la vida, el saber, el pensar, la ...
- After transformative constitutionalism (Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Coimbra 19-04-2013)
Lecture delivered at the Faculty of Economics – University of Coimbra, Portugal – April 19, 2013 5:00 pm – 7:30 pm. Video in Portuguese: Boaventura de Sousa Santos delivered a lecture titled “After transformative constitutionalism” (in portuguese “Depois do constitucionalismo ...
- 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...
- Conversation of the World I – Leonardo Boff and Boaventura de Sousa Santos
The first Conversation of the World with Leonardo Boff and Boaventura de Sousa Santos was held on 9 October 2012 in Araras, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Video in Portuguese. Transcription in English available below. Transcript. Click here for full transcription expander_hide('#te12...
- Decolonizing Social Sciences (2013-02-15 Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Birkbeck College)
Decolonizing Social Sciences, Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The eighth in the series of lectures being given by Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos as part of his Leverhulme Trust-funded Visiting Professorship. Birkbeck College, London University. Video in English. ...
- 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. ...
- 25 April – Boaventura de Sousa Santos on “suspended democracy”
Boaventura de Sousa Santos speacks in an interview on 25th April to the Spanish Radio www.cadenaser.com on “suspended democracy”. Audio in spanish. ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos receives the title of Honoris Causa Degree by UnB
Felicitation Ceremony of Honoris Causa Degree to Boaventura de Sousa Santos by the University of Brasilia (UnB) on the 29th of October 2012. The video starts with the Brazilian band “Inquérito” rapping Boaventura’s writings from the book “Rap Global”. It follows with the...
- 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...
- Dignity | كرامة | Dignidad | आत्मसम्मान | Dignité | Dignità | Kuchikuy Kawsay | Wuerde | Dignidade
Popular University of Social Movements (UPMS) World Social Forum (WSF) Tunis, March 2013 on Dignity | كرامة | Dignidad | आत्मसम्मान | Dignité | Dignità | Kuchikuy Kawsay | Wuerde | Dignidade ...
- 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 Interview 06 – Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito – José Luis Exeni – 13/12/2012
In this interview Cesar Rodriguez-Garavito reflects on action research in a context marked by the use of new technologies of communication and interaction. This development gives rise to benefits and risks of action research. Afterwards he revisits his recent work on comparative experiences of prior...
- 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… ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Occupy the Law: can law be emancipatory?
Lecture in English delivered Friday 30 November 6-8pm: Leverhulme Lecture 6 (20th Anniversary event): “Occupy the Law: can law be emancipatory?” Venue: Room 541 in Malet Street, Birkbeck, London -UK. ...
- 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...
- Alice Interview 03 – Nelson Maldonado Torres – David Veloso Larraz 24/05/2012
Video in Spanish. Short description: In this interview, Nelson Maldonado-Torres presents his thoughts on: 1) the timeliness and relevance of the thought of Frantz Fanon to construct decolonial theories ; 2) emergences of this critical perspectives to reinvent other ways of thinking and knowledge to ...
- Indigenous Justice, Plurinationality and Interculturality in Bolivia and Ecuador
Justice, Rights, plurinationality, legal pluralism. These books are a celebration of diversity and, at the same time, an exploration of its complexity and difficulties. How indigenous justice is exercised in Bolivia and Ecuador? Is it possible, and under what conditions, an intercultural translation...
- 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...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Spaces of Transformation: Epistemologies of the South at Tate
Boaventura de Sousa Santos at Tate Modern, London 28 April 2012. Video in English. Topic: Spaces of Transformation: Epistemologies of the South This video is part of a panel that explores counter-hegemonic transnational networks, global voices and cartographic practices that map the abyssal line b...
- 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...
- Entrevista zoom a Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui
Entrevista zoom a Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui ...
- Resisting Hegemony – Ashis Nandy
Video by Ashis Nandy ...
- The unconscious of India conversation : Nandy and Gurcharan Das
Subject: The Difficulty of Being Good In Conversation: Gurcharan Das and Ashis Nandy ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Citizenship through those who are not citizens
Advanced seminar, in Portuguese. University of Coimbra School of Economics, 31.03.2012. Boaventura de Sousa Santos explores approaches to high-intensity democracies. Democratic experimentalism, demodiversity and participatory democracy are seen as elements essential to extending the democratic canon...
- 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 (Short)
Boaventura De Sousa Santos answers questions about ALICE Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video partially in English or with subtitles in English. This is the short Version, click here for the long version. ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Alice and the World Social Forum (Alice Interview 9/9)
Boaventura De Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video with subtitles in English. Question: How does ALICE position itself before the challenge of an alternative and counter hegemonic globalization? ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – What Can the North Learn (Alice Interview 8/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video with subtitles in English. Question: A fundamental premise of ALICE is that the Global North (always used to impose and to teach), now can and must learn from the South. If you had to identify the m...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – The Lessons, The Mirrors (Alice Interview 7/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video with subtitles in English. Question: There is a very suggestive and interesting metaphor that identifies ALICE. It is that of the mirrors and the unexpected lessons. What’s the meaning of this met...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Receptivity for the Project in the North (Alice Interview 6/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video with subtitles in English. Question: ALICE promotes ecology of knowledges and brings to the fore precisely that diversity of knowledges at a time in which the idea that there are no alternatives pre...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Epistemologies of the South (Alice Interview 5/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video with subtitles in English. Question: On the basis of the proposal of investigation of ALICE are the epistemologies of the South. Kindly explain what constitutes the Epistemologies of the South? ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – From Where Comes Alice, Where is she Heading (Alice Interview 4/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video with subtitles in English. Question: ALICE emerges as a point of departure and an entry point in the investigations of CES. An entry point given the many challenges that have been incipient from the...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Envisioned Contributions (Alice Interview 3/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video in English. Question: Your work is very well known all around the world and your experience has matured within and outside the academia. How do you think the prestigious advanced grant from the Euro...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Strengthening the Voices of the South (Alice Interview 2/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video in English. Question: What elements, tools, procedures and approaches do you envision as strengthening the voices of the South? ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – What is ALICE (ALICE Interview 1/9)
Boaventura de Sousa Santos answers questions about the Alice Project. Coimbra 16 February 2012. Video in English. Question: Could you please make a short introduction about ALICE? Why ALICE? ...
- 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...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – A postcolonial conception of citizenship and intercultural human rights
Boaventura de Sousa Santos Lecture at University Wisconsin-Madison, 2 November 2011. Video in English. Topic: A postcolonial conception of citizenship and intercultural human rights ...
- Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Why and how to take a distance from the western critical tradition
Boaventura de Sousa Santos Lecture at University Wisconsin-Madison, 1 November 2011. Video in English. Topic: Why and how to take a distance from the western critical tradition ...