The Jury for the 8th edition of the CES Award for Young Portuguese-speaking Social Scientists, chaired by Boaventura de Sousa Santos and made up of Cristiana Bastos (Institute of Social Sciences), Graça Carapinheiro (ISCTE- IUL), Leonardo Avritzer (Federal University of Minas Gerais) and Teresa Cruz e Silva (Eduardo Mondlane University), took the unanimous decision to nominate the joint winners:

Mário Augusto Medeiros da Silva with A Descoberta do Insólito: Literatura Negra e Literatura Periférica no Brasil (1960-2000) and Miguel Cardina with Margem de certa maneira. O Maoismo em Portugal 1964-1974.

The jury has also granted three Special Mentions to the following works:

- Três estrelas do Sul Global: O Fórum Social Mundial em Mumbai, Nairobi e Belém, by Ana Maria Prestes Rabelo;

- Mestiçagem Jurídica? O Estado e a Participação Local na Justiça em Cabo Verde. Uma análise Pós-Colonial, by Odair Lopes Varela;

- Tudo isto é Pop. Portugalidades musicais contemporâneas entre a ‘tradição’ e a ‘modernidade’ by Tiago José Lemos Monteiro.

With the prize money of 5.000,00 Euros, the CES Award 8th edition is funded by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

About the Award
In 1999, the Centre for Social Studies of the University of Coimbra has created a biennial award for young researchers (up to age 35) from Portuguese-speaking countries. CES Award is designed to distinguish high-quality work in the field of the Social Sciences and the Humanities. One of its main objectives is to acknowledge studies that, for their outstanding merit, contribute to the development of the Portuguese-speaking scientific communities. The Social Sciences area is broadly understood.