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 Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Romanian, Chinese, Danish, Polish, Arabic, South Korean,and Greek.


Latest Publications

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Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2024), "AI and the Epistemologies of the South", Journal of World-Systems Research, 30, 2, 635-645

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Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2024), "Viver entre ruínas: a condição humana abissal", Revista Debates Insubmissos, 7, 25, 10-17

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Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2023), "Cenas do Antropoceno", digitAR - Revista Digital de Arqueologia, Arquitectura e Artes, 9, 76-84

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