Boaventura de Sousa Santos

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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.

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  • Um discurso sobre as ciências, Porto: Afrontamento, 1987, 58 pp; repr., São Paulo: Cortez, 2003. (Portuguese)
    • Un discurs sobre les ciències: introducció a una ciència postmoderna, trans. Vicent Berenguer, Xàtiva: CREC, and Valencia: Denes, 2003, 208 pp. (Catalan)
  • Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation, London: Butterworths, 2002, xxiii+565 pp; 2nd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2012, xxiii+564 pp; 3rd ed., Cambridge University Press, 2020, xxxi+665 pp. (English)
    • Mai xiang xin fa lü chang shi: Fa lü, Quan qiu hua he jie fang [迈向新法律常识: 法律, 全球化和解放], Beijing: Zhong guo ren min da xue chu ban she, 2009, 603 pp. (Chinese)
  • O Fórum Social Mundial: manual de uso, São Paulo: Cortez, 2005, 222 pp; Porto: Afrontamento, 2005, 217 pp. (Portuguese)
    • Foro social mundial: manual de uso, trans. Joaquín Herrera Flores and Frans Limpens, Barcelona: Icaria, 2005, 271 pp. (Spanish)
    • Il Forum Sociale Mondiale: verso una globalizzazione antiegemonica, trans. David Santoro, Troina: EdCittà Aperta, 2003, 119 pp. (Italian)
    • The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond, London: Zed Books, 2006, xii+222 pp, ARG. (English)
    • Quan qiu zuo yi zhi jue qi [全球左翼之崛起], trans. Xuenong Peng, Shanghai: Shanghai ren min, 2013, 214 pp. (Chinese)
  • Renovar la teoría crítica y reinventar la emancipación social: encuentros en Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2006, 108 pp. (Spanish)
    • Renovar a teoria crítica e reinventar a emancipação social, São Paulo: Boitempo, 2007, 126 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • editor, with Maria Paula Meneses, Epistemologias do Sul, Coimbra: Almedina, 2009, 532 pp; 2nd ed., 2010, 586 pp; repr., São Paulo: Cortez, 2010, 637 pp. (Portuguese)
  • Se Deus fosse um ativista dos direitos humanos, Coimbra: Almedina, 2013; repr., São Paulo: Cortez, 2013, 167 pp. (Portuguese)
    • Si Dios fuese un activista de los derechos humanos, trans. Carlos Martín Ramírez, Madrid: Trotta, 2014, 127 pp. (Spanish)
    • Om Gud var människorättsaktivist, trans. Maria Åsard, Hägersten: Tankekraft, 2014, 166 pp. (Swedish)
    • If God Were a Human Rights Activist, Stanford University Press, 2015, xv+130 pp. (English)
    • Dacă Dumnezeu ar fi un activist pentru drepturile omului, trans. Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu, Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2016, 131 pp. (Romanian)
    • Gdyby Bóg był aktywistą praw człowieka, trans. Jakub Piotr Barszczewski, Kraków: Zakład Wydawniczy "Nomos", 2020, xxix+117 pp. (Polish)
  • Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2014, xi+240 pp; repr., Routledge, 2016, ARG, PDF. (English)
    • Épistémologies du Sud: mouvements citoyens et polémique sur la science, pref. Jean-Louis Laville, Paris: Desclée de Brouwer, 2016, 437 pp. (French)
    • Justicia entre saberes: epistemologías del Sur contra el epistemicidio, Madrid: Morata, 2017. (Spanish)
    • Epistemologien des Südens: gegen die Hegemonie des westlichen Denkens, trans. Felix Schüring, Münster: Unrast, 2018, 383 pp. (German)
    • Erkendelser fra Syd: retfærdighed med vidensdrab, Copenhagen: Solidaritet, 2018, 442 pp. (Danish)
    • Epistemologie del Sud: giustizia contro l'epistemicidio, Rome: Castelvecchi, 2021, 416 pp. (Italian)
  • As bifurcações da ordem: revolução, cidade, campo e indignação, Coimbra: Almedina, 2017, 410 pp. (Portuguese)
    • Las bifurcaciones del orden: revolución, ciudad, campo e indignación, trans. Àlex Tarradellas Gordo, Madrid: Trotta, and Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre, 2018, 292 pp. (Spanish)
  • Esquerdas do mundo, uni-vos!, São Paulo: Boitempo, 2018, 88 pp. [2] (Portuguese)
    • Izquierdas del mundo, ¡uníos!, Barcelona: Icaria, 2018, 151 pp; repr., Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre, and Ciudad de México: Siglo Veintiuno, 2019, 198 pp. (Spanish)
    • Sinistre di tutto il mondo unitevi!, Rome: Castelvecchi, 2019, 144 pp. Publisher. (Italian)
  • O fim do império cognitivo: a afirmação das epistemologias do Sul, Coimbra: Almedina, 2018, 535 pp; repr., Belo Horizonte: Autêntica, 2019, 478 pp. (Portuguese)
  • with Antoni Aguiló, Aprendizajes globales: descolonizar, desmercantilizar y despatriarcalizar desde las epistemologías del sur, Barcelona: Icaria, 2019, 331 pp. (Spanish)
  • editor, with Cecilia MacDowell Santos and Bruno Sena Martins, Quem precisa dos direitos humanos?: precaridade, diferenças, interculturalidades, Coimbra: Almedina, 2019, 390 pp. (Portuguese)
  • O futuro começa agora: da pandemia à utopia, Lisbon: 70, 2020, 542 pp; repr., São Paulo: Boitempo, 2021, 400 pp. (Portuguese)
    • El futuro comienza ahora: de la pandemia a la utopía, Madrid: Akal, 2021, 447 pp. (Spanish)
  • editor, with José Luis Rodríguez, Estado plurinacional y democracias: ALICE en Bolivia, La Paz: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) en Bolivia, 2021, 263 pp. (Spanish)
  • editor, with Sara Araújo and Orlando Aragón Andrade, Descolonizando el constitucionalismo: más allá de promesas falsas o imposibles, Ciudad de México: Akal, 2021, 415 pp. (Spanish)

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