Boaventura de Sousa Santos

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)
  • Vers un nouveau sens commun juridique: droit, science et politique dans la transition paradigmatique, trans. Nathalie Gonzales Lajoie, Paris: Librairie Général de Droit et Jurisprudence (LGDJ), 2004, xiii+703 pp. (French)

• Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization, and Emancipation, London: Butterworths, 2002. (English)
  • China Renmin University Press, 2009. (Chinese)

• co-editor, Law and Globalization from Below: Towards a Cosmopolitan Legality, Cambridge University Press, 2005. (English)

• 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. (English)

• editor, Another Production is Possible: Beyond the Capitalist Canon, London: Verso, 2006, lxii+488 pp, ARG. (English)

• editor, Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistemologies, London: Verso, 2007, 447 pp. (English)

• Una epistemología del sur: la reinvención del conocimiento y la emancipación social, ed. José Guadalupe Gandarilla Salgado, México: Siglo XXI, and Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2009, 368 pp. (Spanish)

• Descolonizar el saber, reinventar el poder, Montevideo: Trilce, 2010; repr., Chile: LOM, 2013. (Spanish)

• 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)

• Epistemologies of the South: Justice against Epistemicide, Boulder: Paradigm Publishers, 2014, xi+240 pp; repr., Routledge, 2016, ARG. (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)

• Decolonising the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017. (English)

• Esquerdas do mundo, uni-vos!, São Paulo: Boitempo, 2018, 88 pp. [1] (Portuguese)
  • Izquierdas del mundo, ¡uníos!, Barcelona: Icaria, 2018; repr., Bogotá: Siglo del Hombre, and Mexico: Siglo Veintiuno, 2019. (Spanish)
  • Sinistre di tutto il mondo unitevi!, Rome: Castelvecchi, 2019, 144 pp. [2] (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)
  • The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South, Durham: Duke University Press, 2018, xiii+376 pp. (English)
  • El fin del imperio cognitivo: la afirmación de las epistemologías del sur, trans. Àlex Tarradellas Gordo, Madrid: Trotta, 2019, 454 pp. (Spanish)

• Construindo as Epistemologias do Sul: Antologia Esencial, 1: Para um pensamento alternativo de alternativas, Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2018, 688 pp. (Portuguese)
  • Construyendo las Epistemologías del Sur: antología esecial, 1, Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2018, 636 pp. (Spanish)
• Construindo as Epistemologias do Sul: Antologia Esencial, 2: Para um pensamento alternativo de alternativas, Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2018, 746 pp. (Portuguese)
  • Construyendo las Epistemologías del Sur: antología esecial, 2, Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2018, 768 pp. (Spanish)

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