Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Receptivity for the Project in the North (Alice Interview 6/9)

× 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 – 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 prevails; there is a saturation of alternatives. What are your expectations in relation to the manner in which political institutions and centres of power shall participate in this project or receive the results of this project?