Boaventura de Sousa Santos – From Where Comes Alice, Where is she Heading (Alice Interview 4/9)

× The project ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: leading Europe towards a new way of sharing experiences is a legacy of the Reinventing Social Emancipation project (EMANCIPA), coordinated by Boaventura de Sousa Santos from 1999 to 2001.Both projects were conducted at the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra in partnership with a range of international researchers and research centres. In 2017, the ALICE project became the alice-Epistemologies of the South Research Programme,which is also based CES, although it relys on the collaboration of many other people. This Alice Project page remains as an archive.

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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 investigations developed out of three decades of research work at CES and a place of departure, as it accepts the challenges in order to turn them into practice. The question is: where did ALICE come from and where is it heading?