Overview

The pandemic caused by the coronavirus revealed many of the weaknesses of our society, long-established by sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos. In this booklet, the Portuguese thinker reflects on the impact of the dire straits that we have suddenly plunged into will have on our lives, while pointing the finger at the inertia and the intrinsic inability of the current economic system to face the challenges that this crisis will make more urgent than ever.

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About the author

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Director Emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University.

His most recent project - ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences - was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe (http://alice.ces.uc.pt/en/).

He has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish.