There are those who believe that modern society's reliance upon law, politics and science to both regulate and emancipate society has reached a crisis point and can no longer provide answers to current social problems. Toward a New Legal Common Sense engages in a series of sociological analyses of l[...]
This book explores the concept of 'cognitive injustice': the failure to recognise the different ways of knowing by which people across the globe run their lives and provide meaning to their existence. Boaventura de Sousa Santos shows why global social justice is not possible without global cognitive[...]
Idag upplever vi ett paradigmskifte i och med att västerlandets sociokulturella modell genomgår sin slutgiltiga kris. I denna situation ställs själva grundfrågorna för den mänskliga samlevnaden på sin spets genom att en mängd motstridiga principer och värderingar gör lika anspråk på gil[...]
This is the third volume of the series Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestoes. Another Knowledge Is Possible explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have em[...]