LIVRO

«O Pluriverso dos Direitos Humanos: a diversidade das lutas pela dignidade»

Eds: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Bruno Sena Martins | 2019

Abstract

O presente volume reúne 21 textos que retratam o diálogo de investigadores de todos os continentes que nos confrontam com temas e realidades sociais, convidando-nos a pensar o lugar dos direitos humanos nas lutas contra o capitalismo, o colonialismo e o patriarcado. Por meio dos textos reunidos, comparece nas páginas deste livro um pluriverso de linguagens, geografias e corpos em luta que mostram como a concepção hegemónica, nortecêntrica, dos direitos humanos está hoje num impasse enquanto linguagem de transformação emancipatória das sociedades.


About the Editors

Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He earned an LL.M and J.S.D. from Yale University and holds the Degree of Doctor of Laws, Honoris Causa, by McGill University. He is Director Emeritus 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. His most recent project - ALICE: Leading Europe to a New Way of Sharing the World Experiences - was funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (ERC), one of the most prestigious and highly competitive international financial institutes for scientific excellence in Europe (http://alice.ces.uc.pt/en/). He has written and published widely on the issues of globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology, social movements and the World Social Forum in Portuguese, Spanish, English, Italian, French, German, Chinese, Danish, Romanian and Polish.

Bruno Sena Martins
Bruno Sena Martins is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES/UC). He is currently co-coordinator of the Doctoral Programme "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" and co-coordinator of the educational outreach activity "Ces Goes to School". Between 2016 and 2019 he was Vice-President of CES Scientific Board of CES/UC, executive 2013 and 2016, he was Co-coordinator of the research group "Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group (DECIDe)" In 2007 he was Research Fellow at the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS), School of Sociology and Social Policy. His research interests are centred on the body, disability, human rights and colonialism. He has undertaken ethnographic fieldwork in Portugal, India and Mozambique.