Globalisation, Alternatives and Reinvention of the Social Emancipation

Year
1
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01637693
Subject Area
Sociology
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
10.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
3rd Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Students should have solid training in their area of expertise and should, additionally, have enough references of a transversal character that allow them to follow a transdisciplinary programme. They should also possess a command of the English language that enables them to read texts of a high level of complexity.

Teaching Methods

The methodologies are defined according with 2 different teaching models: lectures and seminars. During the lectures / master classes (totalizing 6) students will be introduced to the 6 thematic areas composing the syllabus. After each lecture a discussion semninar will take place. In that context students will presente a relevant text and the ideas struturing the lecture will be discussed in relation with the text.

Learning Outcomes

The main goal of the seminar is to give students the capacity to engage with new theoretical and political paradigms for social transformation. Rejecting the idea of globalization as a unique and monolithic phenomenon, the distinction between hegemonic and counter-hegemonic is at the core of this curricular unit. Europe and the Global North are facing an incapacity to confront innovatively the various challenges of justice that interpellate the world in the first decades of the XXI century: social, environmental, inter-generational, cultural, historical and cognitive. The seminar encourages innovative critical perspectives seeking to develop analytical tools that contribute towards recognizing experiences and knowledge that resist the hegemonic globalization characterized by neoliberal capitalism and by the persistent colonial heritages.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. The epistemologies of the South and the reinvention of social emancipation

2. A Postcolonial conception of citizenship

3. Toward a socio-legal theory of indignation

4. Other economies: expanding the canon of production

5. Transformative constitutionalism, interculturality and the reform of the state

6. Human rights and other grammars of human dignity

Head Lecturer(s)

Bruno Daniel Gomes Sena Martins

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Periodic or by final exam as given in the course information: 100.0%

Bibliography

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2014), Epistemologies of the South: Justice Against Epistemicide. Boulder: Paradigm Publishers.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2007), Another knowledge is possible : beyond northern epistemologies. London ; New York: Verso.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2015), "Human Rights: A fragile hegemony", in  If God were a human rights activist. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2007), "Beyond Abyssal Thinking: From Global Lines to Ecologies of Knowledges", Review, XXX(1), 45-89 p.

 Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Mendes, José Manuel (orgs.), (2017), Demodiversidade: Imaginar nuevas posibilidades democráticas. Madid: Akal.