Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a sociologist, Professor emeritus at the Department of Sociology of the School of Economics of the University of Coimbra , Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, and Director Emeritus of the Centre for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. A Marxist, outspoken sympathizer and avowed supporter of the Bloco de Esquerda party, he is regarded as one of the most prominent Portuguese living left-wing intellectuals. In 2023, after a sexual harassment scandal, the University of Coimbra suspended his academic positions until the events are investigated.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos's Published Works
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Published Works
- Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges (2007) (697)
- Law: A Map of Misreading. Toward a Postmodern Conception of Law (1987) (575)
- Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy (1998) (544)
- Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition (1995) (471)
- The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (2018) (439)
- Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide (2014) (417)
- Another knowledge is possible : beyond northern epistemologies (2007) (358)
- Epistemologies of the South (2014) (300)
- The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond (2006) (297)
- Law and globalization from below : towards a cosmopolitan legality (2005) (254)
- Toward a New Legal Common Sense (2002) (252)
- Public Sphere and Epistemologies of the South (2012) (227)
- Democratizing democracy : beyond the liberal democratic canon (2007) (196)
- Toward a multicultural conception of human rights (1997) (173)
- The Heterogeneous State and Legal Pluralism in Mozambique (2006) (164)
- Between Prospero and Caliban: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Inter-identity (2002) (146)
- Epistemologies of the South and the future (2016) (146)
- The Law of the Oppressed: The Construction and Reproduction of Legality in Pasargada (1977) (122)
- A Non-Occidentalist West? Learned Ignorance and Ecology of Knowledge (2009) (122)
- Nuestra America Reinventing a Subaltern Paradigm of Recognition and Redistribution (2001) (121)
- Cognitive justice in a global world : prudent knowledges for a decent life (2007) (118)
- Law and community: the changing nature of State power in late capitalism (1980) (101)
- Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation (2020) (96)
- Modernidade, identidade e a cultura de fronteira (1993) (92)
- The Future of the World Social Forum: The work of translation (2005) (84)
- THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM: A User's Manual (2004) (77)
- Participatory Budgeting in Porto Alegre: Toward a Redistributive Democracy (1998) (75)
- The World Social Forum and the Global Left (2008) (71)
- THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM : TOWARD A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC GLOBALISATION ( PART I ) (68)
- Introduction: Global Challenges for Sociology (2017) (64)
- Globalizing Institutions: Case Studies in Regulation and Innovation (2000) (63)
- Law and Globalization from Below: Beyond neoliberal governance: the World Social Forum as subaltern cosmopolitan politics and legality (2005) (62)
- Toward an Epistemology of Blindness Why the New Forms of `Ceremonial Adequacy' neither Regulate nor Emancipate (2001) (58)
- Law and Globalization from Below: Law, politics, and the subaltern in counter-hegemonic globalization (2005) (57)
- Toward a Multicultural Conception of Human Rights (1997) (56)
- 1 Law , Politics , and the Subaltern in Counter-Hegemonic Globalization (2005) (47)
- Three Metaphors for a New Conception of Law: the Frontier, the Baroque and the South (1995) (47)
- Volume II: Another Production is Possible: Beyond the Capitalist Canon (2008) (44)
- The World Social Forum: Toward a counter-hegemonic globalization 27.03.2003 Dallas, EUA (2003) (43)
- State, Law and Community in the World System: an Introduction: (1992) (40)
- A Discourse on the Sciences (1992) (39)
- Globalizations (2006) (37)
- On Modes of Production of Law and Social Power (1985) (36)
- A Critique of Lazy Reason: Against the Waste of Experience and Toward the Sociology of Absences and the Sociology of Emergences (2015) (36)
- The Resilience of Abyssal Exclusions in Our Societies: Toward a Post-Abyssal Law (2017) (35)
- Oppositional Postmodernism and Globalizations (1998) (32)
- If God Were a Human Rights Activist: Human Rights and the Challenge of Political Theologies (2009) (32)
- The Gatt of Law and Democracy: (Mis)Trusting the Global Reform of Courts (2018) (31)
- The University in the Twenty-First Century: Toward a Democratic and Emancipatory University Reform (2009) (31)
- From the postmodern to the postcolonial - and beyond both (2010) (31)
- If God Were a Human Rights Activist (2015) (30)
- Os Conflitos Urbanos no Recife: o caso do 'Skylab' (1983) (27)
- The Fall of the Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options (1998) (27)
- Introduction: Democracy, Participation and Grassroots Movements in Contemporary Portugal (2004) (26)
- The University at a Crossroads (2016) (26)
- The Processes of Globalisation (2002) (25)
- Law and Revolution in Portugal: The Experiences of Popular Justice after the 25th of April 1974 (1982) (23)
- Decolonizing the Mind: The Case of the Netherlands (2012) (22)
- Knowledges Born in the Struggle (2019) (18)
- State, Wage Relations and Social Welfare in the Semiperiphery: the Case of Portugal (1991) (18)
- Portugal: Tales of Being and not Being (2011) (17)
- A Non-Occidentalist West? (2009) (17)
- Mozambique: The Rise of a Micro Dual State (2011) (16)
- Beyond abyssal thinking (2020) (16)
- Law and Justice in a Multicultural Society : The Case of Mozambique (2006) (16)
- Law: A Map of Misreading (2020) (14)
- Law, State and Urban Struggles in Recife, Brazil: (1992) (13)
- Governance: Between myth and reality (2009) (12)
- The World Social Forum and the Global Left (2008) (11)
- The Sexual Trafficking of Women: Representations of Illegality and Victimisation (2010) (11)
- From Customary Law to Popular Justice (1984) (10)
- The University in the Twenty-first Century (2009) (10)
- The movement of landless rural workers in Brazil and their struggles for access to law and justice (2010) (9)
- The European University at a Crossroads (2012) (9)
- A new vision of Europe: Learning from the South (2017) (8)
- Law and Globalization from Below: Two democracies, two legalities: participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2005) (8)
- Voices of the world (2010) (8)
- Room for Manoeuver: Paradox, Program or Pandora's Box? (1989) (8)
- Between Prospero and Caliban: Colonialism, Postcolonialism, and Inter-identity (2002) (8)
- The Future of the World Social Forum: The work of translation (2005) (7)
- Beyond the Great Divide: Becoming Civilized ? (2007) (7)
- Human rights: a fragile hegemony (2013) (7)
- Community Courts (2006) (7)
- Reinventing democracy : grassroots movements in Portugal (2014) (7)
- Globalization and Higher Education Working Toward Cognitive Justice (2012) (6)
- Toward an Aesthetics of the Epistemologies of the South (2019) (6)
- The Heterogeneous State and Legal Plurality (2006) (5)
- The Pluriverse of Human Rights (5)
- Introduction: Democracy, Participation and Grassroots Movements in Contemporary Portugal (2004) (5)
- Why Did Cuba Become a Difficult Problem for the Left (2009) (4)
- Demodiversity : Towards Post-Abyssal Democracies (2020) (4)
- Ecologies of Knowledges (2015) (4)
- Virus: all that is solid melts into air (2020) (4)
- Room for Manoeuver: Paradox, Program, or Pandora's Box?: [Comment] (1989) (3)
- Why Has Cuba Become a Difficult Problem for the Left? (2009) (3)
- Introduction: Case Studies and Common Trends in Globalizations (2018) (3)
- Manifesto for Good Living/Buen Vivir (2015) (3)
- Towards a socio-legal theory of indignation (2015) (3)
- Globalization: Legal Aspects (2001) (3)
- Another world is possible : world social forum proposals for an alternative gobalization (2015) (3)
- Descobrimentos e Encobrimentos (1993) (2)
- Oppositional Postmodernism and Globalizations: [Commentary] (1998) (2)
- Decolonising the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice (2020) (2)
- The Alternative to Utopia Is Myopia (2020) (2)
- Postcolonialism, Decoloniality, and Epistemologies of the South (2021) (2)
- A New Vision of Europe (2020) (2)
- Time, baroque codes and canonization (1998) (2)
- Law, State and Urban Struggles in Recife, Brazil (1992) (2)
- Why we can't afford to be innocent (1998) (2)
- Graduation Address McGill University (2012) (2)
- A Roundtable on New Legal Realism, microanalysis of institutions, and the new governance: Exploring convergences and differences (2005) (2)
- The university at a crossroads (Portugal) (2016) (1)
- The Landless Rural Workers ’ Movement and its Legal and Political Strategies for Gaining Access to Law and Justice in Brazil (2008) (1)
- State, Law and Community in the World System: an Introduction (1992) (1)
- Minifesto for Intellectual-Activists (2015) (1)
- Decolonizing the University (2019) (1)
- Decolonising the University (2017) (1)
- The Reinvention of Trade Unionism and the New Challenges of Emancipation : From Local Despotism to Global Mobilization (2008) (1)
- The Challenge of Maturity : Whither Social Science ? 1 (1)
- Uncertainty, between Fear and Hope (2017) (1)
- Chapter 1 A New Vision of Europe Learning from the Global South 1 (2021) (1)
- Toward an Epistemology of Blindness Why the New Forms of `Ceremonial Adequacy' neither Regulate nor Emancipate (2001) (1)
- The post-modern transition: law and politics (1989) (1)
- Access to Law and Justice: Advocacy and Legal Assistance Between the State, the Market and the Community (2006) (1)
- Silence of the Intellectuals (2023) (0)
- Legal Plurality and the Time-Spaces of Law: The Local, the National, and the Global (2020) (0)
- The pandemic and the contradictions of contemporaneity (2022) (0)
- Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Epistemology and Science (1995) (0)
- Milner S. Ball, Lying Down Together: Law, Metaphor, and Theology, Madison, Wisc., University of Wisconsin Press, 1985 [e] James Boyd White, Heracles' Bow, Essays on Rhetoric of the Law, Madison, Wisc., University of Wisconsin Press, 1985 (1991) (0)
- Law and Democracy: The Global Reform of Courts (2020) (0)
- Conceptions of Justice from Different Historical and Cultural Traditions (2014) (0)
- Globalization, Nation-States, and the Legal Field: From Legal Diaspora to Legal Ecumenism? (2020) (0)
- Social Movements As Knowledge Producers (2018) (0)
- Time , Baroque Codes and Canonization 1 (2018) (0)
- Why the New Forms of ' Ceremonial Adequacy ' neither Regulate nor (2006) (0)
- In Search of the Negation of the Negation (2001) (0)
- Human Rights, Democracy and Development (0)
- Introduction Creating a Distance in Relation to Western-centric Political Imagination and Critical Theory (2015) (0)
- The Tension between Regulation and Emancipation in Western Modernity and Its Demise (2020) (0)
- Can Law Be Emancipatory? (2020) (0)
- On Modes of Production of Social Law and Social Power (2020) (0)
- The WSF on the Move – CETRI - Centre Tricontinental (2019) (0)
- A intensa pedagogia do vírus (2020) (0)
- Law and Globalization from Below: Notes on the contributors (2005) (0)
- Valentina Borremans, Reference guide to convivial tools, Cidoc, Guernavaca (México), 1978 (1979) (0)
- THEORY FOR GLOBAL AGE (2014) (0)
- The Judicial Courts’ Performance: Main Blockages in the Court System (2006) (0)
- Disabled veterans and the Portuguese Colonial War: lives scarred by history (2011) (0)
- Reviews Direct Democracy (0)
- Toward an Oppositional Postmodern Understanding of Law (2020) (0)
- Knowledge A Non-Occidentalist West ? : Learned Ignorance and Ecology of (0)
- Chávez: The Heritage and the Challenges (2013) (0)
- Epistemological and Practical Challenges for Social Movements in the Global South in 2018 (2018) (0)
- The Administration of Justice: Characteristics and Performance (2006) (0)
- Encountering Other Cultural Universes on the Brink of Chaos (2022) (0)
- In Search of the Negation of the Negation (2001) (0)
- The Fall of the Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options (1998) (0)
- Another Angelus Novus: Beyond the Modern Game of Roots and Options (2015) (0)
- Chapter 3. The Case of Islamic Fundamentalism (2020) (0)
- Room for Manoeuver: Paradox, Program, or Pandora's Box? (1989) (0)
- Global Order and Global Knowledge (2018) (0)
- Critical reflections on the place of the university in the 21st century (2022) (0)
- Reviews (2003) (0)
- From the Pandemic to Utopia (2023) (0)
- Global Order and Global Knowledge (2018) (0)
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