ALICE Research Projects
The project ALICE seeks to re-think and renovate socio-scientific knowledge in light of the epistemologies of the South, proposed by Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The objective is to develop new theoretical and political paradigms of social transformation. For more info click
here. Below the personal research projects of ALICE researcher.
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Democratising democracy |
Transformative constitutionalism, interculturality and State reform |
Other economies |
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
Researcher name: Francisco Freitas
The access and the control of information has been transforming citizenship. Democracies are facing new claims since political will is now expressed at several different stances in times of networked communication. New possibilities imply converse standings that must be considered. The age of data deluge is rearranging the concept of power elsewhere, as democracies are challenged by the upsurge in technology, but especially because greater social control may be assumed by small cohorts at a transnational level.
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Thematic Areas:
Democratising democracy
20
FEB
Researcher name: Mara Bicas
Based on the theoretical framework of "Epistemologies of the South" (Santos, 2010), this project aims to study the indigenous deliberative conceptions and practices as contributing to question the naturalization of the Eurocentric democracy...
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Thematic Areas:
Democratising democracy
17
JUL
Researcher name: José Manuel Mendes
The Project analyzes how extreme events reveal the political work involved in positioning disposable groups and individuals outside nation-states’ imaginaries. Having as case studies the Barh Mukti Abhiyaan grassroots movement and the National Dalit Watch in India, the objective is to propose an analytical approach, based on an ‘ecology of knowledges’ and counter-hegemonic human rights struggles...
Thematic Areas:
Democratising democracy
17
JUL
Researcher name: Cristiano Gianolla
Representative democracy is a political system encompassing both theoretical and empirical limitations in realising the principle of democracy as power of the people. The sustainability of this system is based on the “political colonisation”, meaning that political power is held by a few subjugating the majority...
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Thematic Areas:
Democratising democracy
17
JUL
Researcher name: Antoni Aguiló
This project explores the forms of high-intensity democracy practiced by the 15M movement (the outrage in Spain) in the context of crisis of representative democracy and the struggle against neoliberal globalization and its effects...
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Thematic Areas:
Democratising democracy
17
JUL
