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COP 30 is the official name of the UN conference on climate change taking place in Belém, Brazil, from November 10 to…
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is the emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Coimbra in Portugal. His most recent book is Decolonizing the University: The Challenge of Deep Cognitive Justice.
The assassination of political leaders, whether government officials or leaders of social movements, has been used since ancient times to achieve specific…
Conceptual Clarifications I am a social scientist and, as such, I feel obliged to address the issues I discuss with objectivity, though…
News that in a few years (or months or even days) will surprise the distinguished and clairvoyant Western political analysts who help…
Introduction History teaches us that major social transformations have always occurred in the wake of two types of traumatic social upheavals: war…
Current affairs note: at first glance, this text seems futile in light of the recent attack by Israel and the US on…
This title is not a contradictory proposition. It is a call to unthink much of what we have become accustomed to thinking…
In this text, the hyper-contemporary age is situated between the end of World War II and the present day. As in previous…
Since at least classical antiquity, the differences between dictatorship and democracy have been clear, unequivocal, and as evident as the difference between…
In cordial dialog with Jeffrey D. Sachs I have written several texts about the transitional society we are in. Whenever I do,…