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Post-Doctoral Seminar March 18th and 19th, 2009, 9:30, School of Economics Auditorium, University of Coimbra During the last two decades, the contemporary scenery clearly reveals the increase of contradictions and antagonisms that materialize themselves in crisis processes that mark the civilization of capital, also named “neo-liberal globalization”. Instabilities, insecurities, disposability, inequalities, exclusions, discriminations and violences circumscribe the present era, under the shield of worldization of capital with the supremacy of the financial area. In this context we find emerging and instituting themselves, social struggle processes that indicate the ongoing construction of a counter-hegemony. Therefore, a central challenge of our historical time is to reflect, discuss, research routes for a (re)invention of emancipation in the 21st century. The present Seminar assumes this challenge, articulating analyses of researchers that, in this quest for horizons of emancipation, live and work in different contexts: Portugal, Brazil and Mexico. In this sense, this event of international character, structures itself in two axes : the broadening of critical thought, the outlining of alternatives beyond capital; the construction of a on-going counter-hegemony e social struggles and movements. In the effort of broadening critical thought we shall work upon the conjugation of two analytical perspectives: Marxist thought, privileging Karl Marx and István Mészáros; Boaventura de Sousa Santos’s thought. The proposition is to advance towards a critical dialogue between these two emancipatory thoughts, articulating routes, trails and paths into a broadening of perspectives. The theoretical-political potential of these two perspectives imposes this interlocution as a privileged path to (re)create critical thought, in response to the demands of our historical time. The seminar aims to potentialize collective research projects that make feasible the study of specificities and convergences, delineating counter-hegemony alternatives in the present time, as to contribute to the construction of a social-economic transition policy. In the horizon lays the perspective of constituting a studies and research network, having as conducting wire the (Re)Invention of Emancipation in the 21st century. > Print this page |