Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Human rights or Democratising Democracy? « Alice

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Boaventura de Sousa Santos – Human rights or Democratising Democracy?

Advanced Seminar, in Portuguese. University of Coimbra School of Economics, 01.06.2012.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos analyses the position of human rights within intercultural dialogue. The recognition of other grammars for human dignity poses a challenge to the western matrix on which human rights in the international arena are based.

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