Unit for Global Justice event

Reinventing Social Emancipation through Epistemologies of the South

Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos

Wednesday 6 May, 2009, RHB SH, 4-6 pm.

The South is here understood as the metaphor of the systemic and unjust human suffering caused by global capitalism. The epistemologies of the South are the knowledges of the oppressed through which both counter-hegemonic conceptions of democracy, human rights and the rule of law can be developed and non-western conceptions of good life can be made credible as foundations for political alliances among different social movements.

Professor of Sociology at the School of Economics, University of Coimbra (Portugal), Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School and Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick.

For further information about this event, please contact Trudi Kent (t.kent).