Boaventura de Sousa Santos
| Boaventura de Sousa Santos | |
|---|---|
| Born | Coimbra |
| Nationality | Portuguese |
| Alma mater | University of Coimbra |
| Awards | Premio México de Ciencia y Tecnología (2010) |
Boaventura de Sousa Santos (born November 15, 1940 in Coimbra, Portugal) is a Professor at the School of Economics at the University of Coimbra, Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Law School, Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick and Director of the Centre for Social Studies (CES) at the University of Coimbra.
Boaventura de Sousa Santos was born on November 15, 1940 in Coimbra, Portugal. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Coimbra in 1963, after which point he went to Berlin for a post-graduate course in jurisprudence. He went on to pursue a doctorate on the sociology of law at the University of Yale at the end of the 1960s. While earning his PhD at Yale he was exposed to the political ideology in the United States of America. In the midst of the Civil Rights movement, the radicalization of the black movement, resistance to the Vietnam War, and the first student strike at Yale de Sousa Santos became a Marxist. He took classes with John Niemeyer Findlay and participated in study groups that met to read and discuss Das Kapital.
De Sousa Santos lived in Berlin for a few years and returned to his hometown of Coimbra, where he briefly worked as a lecturer in the Faculty of Law. In 1973, he became one of the founders of the School of Economics at the University of Coimbra, where he opened a Sociology course. In the mid 1980s, he began to structurally adopt the role of a researcher whose understanding the world extended beyond a Western understanding of the world. He has been involved in research in Brazil, Cabo Verde, Macau, Mozambique, South Africa, Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador and India. He has traveled widely, giving classes and lectures while also extending his range of experiences of learning in the process.
He was also one of the driving forces behind the World Social Forum, the spirit of which he considers essential to his studies of counter-hegemonic globalization and to promoting the struggle for global cognitive justice, an underlying concept of “Epistemologies of the South.”
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