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It is nowadays pretty much consensual in the social sciences that colonialism did not end with the political independence of the European…
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.
How many years are we away from a new world war? 1932 was not a year of peace. On the contrary, there…
Without soul or memory, Europe is incapable of seeing the similarity between the images of death and destruction in the Warsaw ghetto,…
Since 1964, most of the countries in the Sahel region (a word of Arabic origin, meaning margin, which refers to the northern…
The crisis of journalism has been talked about almost since the beginning of newspapers with large circulation. As early as 1919, Upton…
At least in the European context, a text with this title has to start with a caveat: when I speak of socialism…
The European political class as a whole is in a state of denial. Polarization between ideologically different political parties tends to occur…
On 14 June, a migrant boat sank in the Aegean Sea, killing between 400 and 700 people from Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and…
Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, on values, or on truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one…
A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused…