Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a professor in the Sociology department University of Coimbra, Portugal. He specialises in issues of law and globalisation, particularly as they relate to the Lusophone South (Mozambique, Brazil, Angola, etc). de Sousa Santos combines his academic life with an active political engagement in World Social Forum.
His essay Beyond Abyssal [...]
A lateral dialogue of ideas
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Recent news- Lingua Franca - 16 January 2010 - Dying wordsYes. If we were conducting this interview in Kayardild and you just told me, 'Move the mic a little closer,' or something, a Kayardild instruction would have translated as something like, 'Move the mic slightly to the south,' even if it was half an inch. And even though we're sitting in a studio that's dark, we can't see th […]
- Native SouthNative South challenges scholars of southern history to expand their conception of the field to include more than the black and white post-colonial south that colors much of the historical literature of the region. The journal focuses on the investigation of Southeastern Indian history with the goals of encouraging further study and exposing the influences o […]
- So You Are Thinking of Moving South!This document, produced for the Ford Foundation, looks into some of the issues pertaining to the relocation of the central functions of international organisations from the global north to the global south. This is a “how to” type of manual built from surveys of organisations which have gone through the relocation process and is intended to be useful for an […]
- SAGE book: The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions: Sujata Patel: SAGE the natural home for authors, editors and societies.This latest edition to the ISA handbook series actively engages with the many traditions of sociology in the world. Twenty-nine chapters from prominent international contributors discuss, challenge and re-conceptualise the global discipline of sociology; evaluating the diversities within and between sociological traditions of many regions and nation-states. […]
- CHINA-AFRICA: Three-year partnership plan announcedChina and 49 African countries have agreed on a three-year action plan for establishing strategic partnerships in science and technology as well as higher education to promote knowledge-based sustainable development. The plan was announced earlier this month at the Fourth Ministerial Conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation in Sharm El Sheikh in E […]
- Lingua Franca - 16 January 2010 - Dying words
- Upcoming conferences
- Pacific Art in the 21st Century - Museums, New Global Communities And Future Trends (Aug 2010)
- Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies April 2010
- Vision Culture Lectures - Shalini Ganendra Fine Art
- The Art and Social Justice Conference (March 2010)
- Transcultural Mappings : emerging issues in comparative, transnational and area studies (April 2010)
- The Pacific Sociological Association (April 2010)
- TASA - The Australian Sociology Association - Conference (Dec 2009)
- Visual Culture around the Indian Ocean Littoral (Feb 2010)
- The Antipodean Laboratory: Humanity, Sovereignty and Environment in Southern Oceans and Lands, 1700-2009 (until Aug 2010)
- Independence! Two Centuries of Struggle, Latin America conference (July 2010)
- VI Southern Connection Congress (Feb 2010)
- Recent books
- Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
- SAGE book: The ISA Handbook of Diverse Sociological Traditions: Sujata Patel: SAGE the natural home for authors, editors and societies.
- Shannon Lee Dawdy: Building the Devil's Empire
- Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, Flávio Gordon, and Francisco Araújo: The Turn of the Native
- Oceanic Encounters
- Recent articles
- Beyond abyssal thinking by Boaventura de Sousa SantosThis article proposes an 'epistemology of the south' which opposes an ecology of knowledges to the 'abyssal thinking' characteristic of Western modernity […]
- Ubuntuism, commodification, and the software dialectic by Mike ChegeAn application of the southern African value of Ubuntu to the alternative concept of market developed for open source software […]
- Challenges in the Production and Globalization of African Knowledges | The Zeleza PostDeals with the question of a how an African academic relates to the North, distinguishing between the Pan-Africanists, the Northernists, and the globalists. Considers how to establish two-way dialogue between north and south. […]
- From Hub & Spokes to Warp & Weft – dialogue with Africa in a new worldA new multilateralism has encouraged new south-south networks that develop alternative frameworks for understanding cultural history. […]
- The Antarctic DictionaryVocabulary collected by Bernadette Hice of words particular to the experience of living in the deep South […]
- Beyond abyssal thinking by Boaventura de Sousa Santos
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