If God Were a Human Rights Activist (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)

We live in a time when the most appalling social injustices and unjust human sufferings no longer seem to generate the moral indignation and the political will needed both to combat them effectively and to create a more just and fair society. If God Were a Human Rights Activist aims to strengthen the organization and the determination of all those who have not given up the struggle for a better society, and specifically those that have done so under the banner of human rights. It discusses the challenges to human rights arising from religious movements and political theologies that claim the presence of religion in the public sphere. Increasingly globalized, such movements and the theologies sustaining them promote discourses of human dignity that rival, and often contradict, the one underlying secular human rights. Conventional or hegemonic human rights thinking lacks the necessary theoretical and analytical tools to position itself in relation to such movements and theologies; even worse, it does not understand the importance of doing so. It applies the same abstract recipe across the board, hoping that thereby the nature of alternative discourses and ideologies will be reduced to local specificities with no impact on the universal canon of human rights. As this strategy proves increasingly lacking, this book aims to demonstrate that only a counter-hegemonic conception of human rights can adequately face such challenges.

Santos, Boaventura De Sousa

Foreign & International Law

Stanford University Press

The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity (Epistemologies of the South)

"The impasse affecting human rights as a language used to express struggles for dignity reflects the epistemological and political exhaustion which blights the global North. Inspired by struggles from all corners of the world, this book offers a highly conditional response to the prevailing notion of human rights today"--

The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity (Epistemologies of the South)

Martins, Bruno Sena

Reference

Routledge

Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

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 justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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 justice. Santos argues that Western domination has profoundly marginalised knowledge and wisdom that had been in existence in the global South. She contends that today it is imperative to recover and valorize the epistemological diversity of the world. Epistemologies of the South outlines a new kind of bottom-up cosmopolitanism, in which conviviality, solidarity and life triumph against the logic of market-ridden greed and individualism.

The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond

Leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum, arguing that its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change can be achieved only by taking a stand against neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and corruption. However, since its inception in Porto Alegre in 2001, the World Social Forum has refused to adopt political positions on world events, preferring instead to provide a platform that facilitates cooperation between diverse social movements. Through a detailed analysis of the WSF's history and organization, he demonstrates that it has always been an inherently political organization, and argues that if the WSF is able to realise its potential as an institution for a new form of politics, it will become a global power to be reckoned with in the 21st century.

Politics & Government

Zed Books

In this book the leading sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos makes an impassioned case for the politicisation of the World Social Forum.   Since its inception in Porto Alegre in 2001, the World Social Forum has refused to take political positions on world events, preferring instead to provide a platform for diverse social movements to come together.  de Sousa Santos argues, however, that the Forum can only realise its full potential as a force for social, economic and political change, by taking a directly political stand against the evils of neo-liberal globalization, war, famine and corruption.  Through a detailed consideration of the WSF's history and organization, he demonstrates that it has always been an inherently political organization.  If, he claims, the WSF is able to realise its potential as an institution for a new form of subaltern, cosmopolitan politics, it will become a global power to be reckoned with in the 21st century. 

Sociología jurídica crítica: Para un nuevo sentido común en el derecho (Spanish Edition)

Editorial Trotta, S.A.

Si Dios fuese un activista de los derechos humanos (Spanish Edition)

Religion & Spirituality

Religious Studies

El fin del imperio cognitivo: La afirmación de las epistemologías del Sur

La autoflagelaci n es la mala conciencia de la pasividad, y no es f cil superarla en un contexto en el que la pasividad es impuesta. Sin embargo, el reconocimiento pleno de la fuerza avasalladora de las circunstancias no puede paralizar la lucha por la b squeda de alternativas dignas. Se pretende mostrar, a lo largo del libro, que ese imaginario de Europa corresponde cada vez menos a la realidad; que los partidarios de gobierno nacional -de derecha y de izquierda- y las instancias de gobierno europeo se dejaron capturar por la voracidad del neoliberalismo y de su arma de destrucci n masiva, el capital financiero, la forma de capital m s hostil a la voluntad democr tica.

Democracia al borde del caos: Ensayo contra la autoflagelación (Spanish Edition)

Siglo del Hombre Editores

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If God Were a Human Rights Activist (Stanford Studies in Human Rights)

The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity (Epistemologies of the South)

Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide

The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond

The Rise of the Global Left: The World Social Forum and Beyond

Sociología jurídica crítica: Para un nuevo sentido común en el derecho (Spanish Edition)

Si Dios fuese un activista de los derechos humanos (Spanish Edition)

El fin del imperio cognitivo: La afirmación de las epistemologías del Sur

Democracia al borde del caos: Ensayo contra la autoflagelación (Spanish Edition)