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Leading Portuguese social theorist, director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra, has written and published widely on the issue of globalization.
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The university in the twenty-first century
Towards a democratic and emancipatory university reform
Universities can regain their legitimacy only through radical democratic restructuring. Countering the brain-drain -- so far the main result of the transnationalization of education -- will only be possible by embarking on a counter-hegemonic process of educational globalization. [Lithuanian version added] [more]
Beyond abyssal thinking
From global lines to ecologies of knowledges
Modern Western thinking continues to operate along abyssal lines that divide the human from the sub-human. One side of this line is ruled by a dichotomy of regulation and emancipation, the other by appropriation and violence. In order to succeed, the struggle for global social justice requires a new kind of post-abyssal thinking. [more]
Towards widening the democratic canon
Social movements are emancipatory in so far as they seek alternatives to conditions imposed by states and economic conditions. Moreover, they redefine more inclusive social identities and act as truly transnational democratic units. [more]
Collective suicide or globalization from below?
After the war in Iraq, a new voice for peace must come from the NGOs. [more]
The Processes of Globalisation
Hardly any topic evokes such different definitions and broad opinions as globalisation. Boaventura de Sousa Santos brings together different sides of the debate to formulate a new understanding of the contradictory processes of globalisation, its history, its economic and political implications for today and for the future of the capitalist, global economy. [more]
Learning from Genoa
Four lessons in globalization
Boaventura de Sousa Santos sees two different kinds of globalisation that now have to enter into a dialouge. As counter-hegemonic globalisation grows, the responsibility of its protagonists increases. [more]
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