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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Article in Scientific journal
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2019), "En la era del perdón o de la agresión?", Casa de las Américas, abril-junio, 295, 126-129
Read moreBook Chapter
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2019), Direitos humanos, democracia e desenvolvimento, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Martins, Bruno Sena (org.), O pluriverso dos direitos humanos. A diversidade das lutas pela dignidade. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica Editora, 39-61
Book Chapter
Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2019), Direitos humanos, democracia e desenvolvimento, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Martins, Bruno Sena (org.), O pluriverso dos direitos humanos. A diversidade das lutas pela dignidade. Coimbra: Edições 70, 41-66