Suchergebnisse

The tension between regulation and emancipation in Western modernity and its demise -- Toward an oppositional postmodern understanding of law -- Legal plurality and the time-spaces of law : the local, the national, and the global -- The law of the oppressed : the construction and reproduction of legality in Pasargada -- Globalization, nation-states and the legal field : from legal diaspora to legal ecumenism? -- Law and Democracy : the global reform of courts -- On modes of production of Social Law and social power -- Law : a map of misreading -- Can law be emancipatory?

Exploring the historical experience of the Global South, Boaventura de Sousa Santos argues that state law excludes populations and peoples by deeming them invisible, irrelevant, or dangerous. Demonstrating the suffering caused by capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, he pursues real legal utopias by proposing realistic yet hopeful alternatives

What are the types of knowledge that are produced and reproduced in the university? What are the main challenges that this institution has faced during the last forty years and that it faces today more than ever? Is it possible to decolonize it? Guided by the above questions, this book analyzes the constant threat that the university faces as a public good and establishes coordinates to guarantee its future. Betting that this space can value and transmit the knowledge born from the struggle, Boaventura de Sousa Santos presents and analyzes proposals to show that it is possible to turn the deep crisis that affects the university into an opportunity to change it in a plural, emancipatory and actively involved in the epistemologies of the South

We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better society, and specifically those that have done so under the banner of human rights. It discusses the challenges to human rights arising from religious movements and political theologies that claim the p