Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Biography
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.
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News
2021-07-24 Observador
2021-07-23 Público
2021-07-19 Setenta e Quatro
Bem-vindos ao admirável mundo pandémico: violência, guerra fria e vacinas
Projetos
Evaluative Study on the impact of measures applied to offenders
Latest Publications
Book
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2021), Conoscere per liberare. Roma: Castelvecchi
Book
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2021), Decolonising the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice.. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Book
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2021), El futuro comienza ahora. De la pandemia a la utopía. Madrid: Akal