(English) ALICE Research Projects
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(English) Researcher name: Tshepo Madlingozi
(English) Since the late 1980s the Global North has imposed certain notions of modernity, legal system and nation building through the ‘Transitional Justice project’ (TJP). Instead of experiencing independence – politically, culturally and epistemologically – “post-conflict” countries are re-colonised through this project...
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(English) Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
(English) Researcher name: Sara Araújo
(English) In the process of reducing the world to a Western understanding of the world, modern law assumed the role of science accomplice. It became a globalized localism based on a universal conception of the individual which, in turn, determined the way Human rights framework was drawn...
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(English) Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
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JUL
(English) Researcher name: Maria Paula Meneses
(English) This project aims to amplify counter-hegemonic and post-colonial possibilities concerning human rights, by exploring the epistemological potential of foodwork/foodmaking as a ‘contact zone’...
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(English) Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
(English) Researcher name: Julia Suárez-Krabbe
(English) The epistemologies found among decolonial social movements of the different European countries contribute substantially to an alternative thinking of alternatives in face of today's interlocking crises (of the environment, of 'multiculturalism' and the economic crisis)...
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(English) Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
(English) Researcher name: Eva García Chueca
(English) Over the last decades, the right to the city has become a political claim of several urban social movements, first in Brazil and later within the framework of the World Social Forum. Considering the growing interest this concept has awaken among transnational civil society, it is relevant to know to what extent the right to the city is a cosmopolitan tool...
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(English) Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
(English) Researcher name: Dhruv Pande
(English) The Research Project begins with a dialogue between the theoretical trajectories of Boaventura de Sousa Santos and those of and from India. Subsequently, the Project proceeds by working out the theoretical formulations onto the crisis-situations arising out of Land (deriving ‘ecology of knowledges’ herein) and their relation to social (and micro) movements...
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(English) Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
