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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Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
Researcher name: Tshepo Madlingozi
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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Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
Researcher name: Sara Araújo
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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Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
Researcher name: Julia Suárez-Krabbe
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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Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
Researcher name: Eva García Chueca
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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Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
Researcher name: Dhruv Pande
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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Thematic Areas:
Human rights and other grammars of human dignity
17
JUL
