I am writing this text with the Americas and Europe in mind, but the phenomena I analyze apply, with modifications, to other regions of the world. We are on the brink of a new world war, facing imminent ecological collapse, witnessing the end of international law, and the end of the distinction between democracy and autocracy.

Throughout history, the siege of populations has been widely used as a strategy to force the surrender of the political and military forces defending the besieged territories. The fundamental reason for believing in the effectiveness of the siege was the starvation and disease inflicted upon the civilian population.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos has published A Rebellious Dictionary for the 21st Century: Thirty Socio-Spiritual Exercises, a work that sets out to question certainties, challenge conformism and restore our ability to think collectively about the contemporary world.

The Portuguese sociologist and thinker Boaventura de Sousa Santos will take part in the International Forum “The University and its Social Commitment”, to be held on 28 May at 10:00 a.m., where he will deliver the opening address.

the scientific field, the term “bifurcation” was first used by Henri Poincaré, but in the second half of the 20th century, the concept and theory of bifurcation came to be associated with the chemist and Nobel laureate Ilya Prigogine.

In what is perhaps the best book on Hitler, Allan Bullock wrote in Hitler: A Study in Tyranny that Hitler’s philosophy is the natural philosophy of the doss-house, the philosophy of homeless shelters – a philosophy he learned while living in those shelters in Vienna for some time.

One of the most influential interpretations of 20th-century fascism is that fascism was a rebellion against the secularism of the modern era, which proposed a transcendent society both on a practical level (progress) and on a theoretical level (the possibility of transcending all limits).

A large transnational group of prominent voices has released an open letter sharply criticising the global role of the United States and calling for a new international order centered on sovereignty and resistance to what they describe as Western domination.

Israel, in particular, but also the United States, has been breathing new life into the concept of decapitation as a weapon of political violence. Needless to say, this weapon violates all contemporary international conventions on warfare.

I call on leaders like Pedro Sánchez and Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to defy international pressure and defend Cuba against what I see as an injustice and a new form of tyranny.

To understand the qualitative leap of the ongoing catastrophe in the Middle East and the process that could transform it into a global catastrophe, we need to go back in time.

Shortly before World War I, when the smell of war was in the air, one of the most eloquent advocates of peace, the writer Romain Rolland, winner of the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote that the urgency of the moment no longer allowed for analytical circumspection regarding the complexity of the factors driving the war.

In 2010, the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) was approved, the construction of which began with the Bologna Process (1999). It aimed to create a common system of easily readable and comparable university degrees and to create mechanisms to guarantee the quality of degrees (...)

She was an outstanding scholar, mentor, a long-standing ally of African social science and a committed member of CODESRIA whose service to the community was enduring.

There are periods in history when the concept of civilization captures the attention of historians and social scientists. About a century ago, Owald Spengler, Arnold Toynbee, and Pitirin Sorokin were the most distinguished names in this field. At the end of the last century, postcolonial studies and Samuel Huntington, with his Clash of Civilizations, marked a return of interest in the idea of civilization, albeit with opposing purposes: postcolonial studies criticizing Euroce

In an extensive conversation, Boaventura reviews his biography, refutes accusations, criticises identitarianism and warns of an ‘insidious fascism’ which, according to him, is conquering societies through narcissism, resentment and the algorithmic manipulation of emotions.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos was recently in Brazil, sharing experiences and knowledge with social organisations, academics and journalists. During his trip, he participated in debates, conferences and interviews that explored democracy, social justice and the challenges of the contemporary world.

The Instituto dos Advogados Brasileiros (IAB) has paid tribute to Portuguese sociologist and jurist Boaventura de Sousa Santos, awarding him the Medalha Luiz Gama

What will be at stake at COP 30, as it was at previous conferences and will be at future ones, is the lack of political will.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos publishes a new book entitled "Laws of Nature: A Realistic Utopia" It represents the continuity of the intellectual commitment its author assumed in previous works on the law and epistemologies of the South. In this new publication, he proposes to delve deeper into the utopian possibilities of law as we know it, exploring its potential to provoke ruptures and transformations in the way we conceive both law and the State.