Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (1940) is Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is director of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra and has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements, and the World Social Forum. He has been awarded several prizes, most recently the Science and Technology Prize of Mexico, 2010, and the Kalven Jr. Prize of the Law and Society Association, 2011.
Works
- Toward a New Common Sense: Law, Science and Politics in the Paradigmatic Transition, New York: Routledge, 1995. (English)
- Toward a New Legal Common Sense. Law, Globalization, and Emancipation, London: Butterworths, 2002. (English)
- co-editor, Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (English)
- The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond, London: Zed Books, 2006. (English)
- editor, Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies, London: Verso, 2007, 447 pp. (English)
- Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide, Boulder/London: Paradigm Publishers, 2014. (English)
- If God Were a Human Rights Activist, Stanford University Press, 2015. (English)
- more
