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The Pluriverse of Human Rights: The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity The Diversity of Struggles for Dignity
Preface
Introduction
Part 1. Human frontiers
1. Human Rights, democracy and development
Boaventura de Sousa Santos
2. A Being that was not made to suffer: on the difference of the human and the differences between humans
João Arriscado Nunes
3. On the coloniality of human rights
Nelson Maldonado Torres
Part 2. Struggles and emergences
4. Revisiting the Bhopal disaster: times of violence and latitudes of memory
Bruno Sena Martins
5. Pluralism and the post-minority condition: reflections on the ‘Pasmanda Muslim’ discourse in North India
Khalid Anis Ansari
6. Picturing Law, Reform and Sexual Violence: Notes on the Delhi Protests of 2012-2013
Pratiksha Baxi
7. Women and Mass Violence in Mozambique during the Late Colonial Period
Maria Paula Meneses
8. Women's Human Rights, Legal Mobilization and Epistemologies of the South
Cecília MacDowell Santos
9. The power of racism in academia: knowledge production and political disputes
Marta Araújo and Silvia R. Maeso
10. The Roma collective memory and the epistemological limits of Western historiography
Cayetano Fernández
11. Rights, confinement, and liberation: rearguard theory and freedom of movement
Julia Suárez-Krabbe
12. The Mediterranean as the EU human rights boundary
Angeles Castaño Madroñal
Conclusion
Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Bruno Sena Martins
Biography
Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal), and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA). He has written extensively on globalization, sociology of law and the state, epistemology and social movements. His most recent publication The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (2018).
Bruno Sena Martins is Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Co-coordinator of the Doctoral Program Human Rights in Contemporary Societies. He was Vice-President of CES/UC Scientific Board and Co-coordinator of the research group Democracy, Citizenship and Law Research Group (DECIDe). In 2007, he was Research Fellow at the Centre for Disability Studies (CDS), School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds. His research interests include body, disability, human rights and colonialism.
