Globalisation, Alternatives and Reinvention of the Social Emancipation

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Learning Outcomes

All around the world socially excluded or vulnerable groups and their allies are developing alternatives to hegemonic forms of sociability, giving rise to new political cultures and new forms of legal and social activism. Thus, exclusion processes are facing resistance, base initiatives, local organizations, popular movements that seek to counter social exclusion, creating spaces for the construction of communities, for alternatives to dominant forms of development and knowledge and, in brief, for social inclusion.

Starting with these local initiatives and their transnational connections, a new solidary internationalism emerges, and social emancipation is being reinvented. The seminar will group these initiatives and networks under the following themes: participatory democracy; alternative production systems; emancipatory multiculturalism; human rights and new forms of citizenship; biodiversity, rival knowledges and intellectual property law; new labor internationalism.

Work Placement(s)

No

Head Lecturer(s)

Boaventura Sousa Santos