The articles “The Recolonization of the Indian Mind”, by Peter Ronald deSouza, of the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Índia), and “La injusticia cognitiva en la división internacional del conocimiento. El caso de la migración altamente cualificada”, by Francesco Maniglio, of the Centro Internacional de Estudios Superiores en Comunicación para América Latina (Equador), are the joint winners of the 40 anos da Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais Prize, in the amount of 1500 euros.

The Jury of the Prize - comprised of three specialists from the social sciences and humanities: Mônica Herz (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro), Teresa Cid (Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon), Luís Trindade (Contemporary History Institute of the New University of Lisbon and Birkbeck, University of London), and presided over by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Director of the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra - also decided to attribute honorable mentions to the articles “On the Coloniality of Human Rights”, by Nelson Maldonado-Torres, Department of Latino and Caribbean Studies, and Program in Comparative Literature,  Rutgers University (USA) and “Ministério Público: Velha instituição com novas funções?”, by Ludmila Mendonça Lopes Ribeiro, Centro de Estudos de Criminalidade e Segurança Pública, Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil).

The Jury met on July 12, having decided unanimously. The 40 anos da Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais Prize aims to award the best articles published in the journal between 2017/2018 in order to mark and commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the journal, founded in 1978 under the directorship of Boaventura de Sousa Santos.

Peter Ronald deSouza describes in his article the pernicious consequences of colonialism, namely what has been described as "slavery of the minds" - which has produced a feeling of inferiority, an erasure of memory and cultures, a strange conceptual vocabulary and a hegemonic perspective on the basis of which one looks at the world - to demonstrate the enormous conceptual challenges that a decolonisation of the mind has to face in order to change society, as well as public discourse, towards a truly emancipatory future.

In the article by Francesco Maniglio, the author tries to analyse, from the perspective of political economy, the great importance assumed by the highly qualified migrations in the global development of the knowledge economy. Maniglio argues that global social injustice is closely linked to global cognitive injustice, and that highly skilled migration forms part of the neocolonial movement of knowledge capitalism

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Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, a four-monthly publication of the Centre for Social Studies, publishes original papers presenting advanced research and creative theoretical thinking with respect to the Social Sciences and the Humanities. The journal favours works with a transdisciplinary approach and that contribute to the theoretical discussion, epistemological thinking and critical knowledge of contemporary reality on a global scale. Accepting submissions that cover all geographical contexts, RCCS gives special emphasis to works that contribute to the Global South debate. Submissions are subject to a rigorous double-blind peer review process.

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