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A volume in the acclaimed Reinventing Social Emancipation series. "Another Production is Possible" analyzes the changing capital-labor conflict of the past two decades, as well as considering alternative models to capitalist development.A volume in the acclaimed Reinventing Social Emancipation serie... More

The third volume of the Reinventing Social Emancipation: Towards New Manifestos series. "Another Knowledge Is Possible" explores the struggles against moral and cultural imperialism and neoliberal globalization that have taken place over the past few decades, and the alternatives that have emerged i... More

The book's main argument is that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice. It maintains that there can be no global social justice without global cognitive justice.The book's main argument is that global social injustice is by and large epistemological injustice. It maintain... More

A volume in the acclaimed Reinventing Social Emancipation series. "Democratizing Democracy" shows the development of dual forms of participatory and representative democracy in the global South.A volume in the acclaimed Reinventing Social Emancipation series. "Democratizing Democracy" shows the deve... More

Written by leading scholars, these case studies represent an unprecedented attempt to analyze the role of the law in the global movement for social justice. They combine empirical research with innovative sociolegal theory to shed new light on a wide array of topics. Among the issues examined are th... More

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 pl... More

The studies gathered in this volume were produced as part of an international project on the reinvention of social emancipation in the age of globalization, involving research teams from six countries, including Brazil, Colombia, South Africa, Mozambique, India and Portugal. The project explored res... More

Jennifer Wright was born at St Luke's Hospital in New Bedford, MA, and there she was diagnosed with a Hemangioma. As she grew, the Hemangioma spread down the left side of her face leaving her with a massive birth defect. After six constructive plastic surgeries her image improved drastically, and sh... More

A study of tragedies, comedies, romances, and histories, this book examines the dynamic interplay of three concepts--gender, text, and habitat--as metaphors for cross-cultural definition. The book focuses on the cross-cultural experience, arguing that Shakespeare reinterprets, refashions, and reinsc... More