The challenges to democracies in the 21st century

 

• Intercultural Democracy: Demodiversity as a Challenge in the 21st Century in Bolivia
• Life is not the center of Democracy and Democracy is not the center of Life. A feminist critique of capitalist political economy
• Covid-19 and exclusionary housing policies
• Decolonizing public space: monuments and anti-racist protests
• Other economies and life production: a strategy against the context of the coronavirus pandemic
• Democracy and Human Rights
• Reason and emotion in democracy
• Emotions, democracy and populism
• For any unique project: challenges to democracy from the lived reality of COVID-19

 

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• VV: (2020), Coronavírus, Gênero e Luta de Classes. Brazil: Terra sem Amos, pp. 27 – 36.
• Adichie, Chimamanda (2009). “The story of a unique story,” he says in a TED Talk. Available at: https://www2.ifmg.edu.br/governadorvaladares/noticias/adelia-a-poesia-ea-vidaconvite-para-o-3o-encontro-do-dialogos/o-perigo-de-uma-historia-unicachimamanda-ngozi-adichie-pdf.pdf [TET video: https://www.ted.com/talks/chimamanda_ngozi_adichie_the_danger_of_a_single_ story?language=es]
• Aguiló, Antoni (2010). “Towards a new philosophy of history. A critical review of the idea of ​​progress in light of the epistemology of the South”, in Aposta: Journal of Social Sciences, No. 47. Available at: https://dialnet.unirioja.es/servlet/articulo?codigo=3652141.
• Arias Maldonado, Manuel (2017). “The affective bases of populism”, in International Journal of Political Thought, Vol. 12, pp. 151-167.
• Barbosa, Benedito Roberto; Avanci, Juliana Kohara, Luiz (2020). “Pandemia nos cortiços de São Paulo e as mortes (in)visíveis in a city that we don't even want to see”, in Carta Capital Magazine. Available at: https://www.cartacapital.com.br/blogs/pandemia-nos-corticos-de-sao-paulo-e-asmortes-invisiveis-em-uma-cidade-que-ninguem-quer-ver/
• Bartra, Roger (2017). The battle of ideas and emotions in Latin America, Mexican Journal of Political and Social Sciences, No. 229, pp. 129-148.
• Carreras Doallo, Ximena and Mateo, Graciela (2019). “Populism, the validity of a concept”, in Carreras Doallo, Ximena; Mateo, Graciela, Between old and new populisms, Buenos Aires: CICCUS Foundation. pp. 5-30.
• Coraggio, José (2015). “To think about new economies: concepts and experiences in Latin America”, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Cunha, Teresa (orgs), Other economies. International Colloquium Epistemologias do Sul: aprendizagens globais Sul-Sul, Sul-Norte e Norte-Sul. Coimbra: Projeto ALICE, pp. 78-90. available at: https://www.coraggioeconomia.org/jlc/archivos%20para%20descargar/Livro_OE .pdf
• Coraggio, José (2018). “The social and solidarity economy as an alternative to the market economy,” in Tobar, Javier (ed.) Cauca, coffee with roots. Coffee farming, agroecology and the social and solidarity economy, Popayán: Editorial Universidad del Cauca. Available at: https://www.coraggioeconomia.org/jlc/archivos%20para%20descargar/Caf%C3%A9%20con%20ra%C3%ADces%20digital.pdf
• Cossarini, Paolo; García Alonso, Roberto (2015). “The role of emotions in democratic theory. Challenges for a public use of reason in times of populism”, in Revista de Estudios Políticos, N. 168, pp. 291-315.
• Cunha, Teresa (2020), "O Capitalismo ea Vida. Um Diálogo Feminista Contra-aCorrente, in Feminist Dialogues. Maputo: Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Mozambique (in press).
• Dagnino, Renato (2020). A Solidarity Economy as the outcome of national reconstruction. Ciranda Internacional da Comunicação Compartilhada. Available at: https://ciranda.net/?A-Economia-Solidaria-como-eixo-da&lang=pt_br
• Exeni, José Luis (2017). “Plurinational Demodiversity in Practice”, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Mendes, José Manuel (eds.) Post-Abyssal Democracy: Imagining New Democratic Possibilities. Madrid: Akal.
• Gándara Carballido, Manuel (2019). “Other assumptions from which we approach the reflection on human rights”, in Human rights in the 21st century: a look from critical thinking. Buenos Aires: CLACSO, pp. 51-88.
• Holz, Sheila; Monteiro, Tatiana Vilella de Andrade (2008). “Social Habitação Policies eo Direito à Moradia no Brasil”, in Scripta Nova - Electronic Journal of Geography and Social Sciences
• Huyssen, Andreas (2020). “Public Memory Art in the Southern Hemisphere”, in Arcadia, 9/3/2020. Available at: https://www.revistaarcadia.com/arte/articulo/arte-de-memoria-publica-en-elhemisferio-sur-por-andreas-huyssen/81080.
• Macedo Corrêa, Andrey Lucas; Walmott Borges, Alexandre; Guimarães Pinh, Karina (2017). “Almeida Analysis of populism in democracy: between emotions and rationalism”, in Revista Videre, Vol. 9, No. 17, pp. 188-202.
• Mbembe, Achille (2008). “For a symbolic burial of colonialism. Imaginary and public space in Africa”, in Le Messager. Available at: https://www.oozebap.org/text/colonialismo_mbembe.htm
• Meneses, Maria Paula (2004). “'When there are no problems, we are in good health, without chance or anything': for an emancipatory conception of health and medicines”, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Silva, Teresa Cruz and (orgs), Moçambique ea Reinvenção da Emancipação Social. Maputo: CFJJ.
• Prochasson, Christophe (2005) “Emoções e politica – first approximations”, in Varia Historia, Vol. 21 N. 4, pp. 305-324.
• Sabariego, Jesús (2018). “Recent Global Social Movements and Technopolitics from the Epistemologies of the South”, in Pensamiento al margen, No. 8, available at https://digitum.um.es/digitum/bitstream/10201/58681/1/n8-4-recientes-movimientos-sociales.pdf
• Sabariego, Jesús (2020). “Technopolitical approaches to the Recent Global Social Movements”, in Revista da Faculdade de Direito, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (Brazil), available at https://periodicos.ufsm.br/revistadireito/article/download/40999/pdf (See reference bibliography at the end of the article).
• Santos, Aline Mendonça (2017). “As other economies do not frame das epistemologias do sul”, in Gaiger, Luiz Inácio Germany; Santos, Aline Mendonça dos (Orgs.), Solidariedade e Ação Coletiva: Trajetórias e Experiências. Vol. 1. São Leopoldo: Unisinos, pp. 252-274
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2010). “The Refounding of the State and the False Positives”, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, Refounding of the State in Latin America. La Paz: Plural Editores and Cesu-UMSS, pp. 71-125.
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2014). “Human Rights, Democracy and Development”, in Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Bye, Marilena, Human Rights, Democracy and Development. São Paulo: Cortez.
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2019). “In the Age of Forgiveness or Aggression?” in Público.es (11/4/2019). Available at: https://blogs.publico.es/espejosextranos/2019/04/11/en-la-era-del-perdon-o-de-la-agresion/ [Portuguese version: https://www.cartamaior.com.br/?/Editoria/Antifascismo/Na-Era-do-Perdao-ouda-Agressao-/47/43846]
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2020). “The Statues of Our Discontent,” in Público.es (June 22, 2020). Available at: https://blogs.publico.es/espejosextranos/2020/06/22/las-estatuas-de-nuestro-malestar/ [Portuguese version: https://www.sul21.com.br/opiniaopublica/2020/06/as-estatuas-do-nossodescontentamento-por-boaventura-de-sousa-santos/]
• Santos, Boaventura de Sousa (2020). A Cruel Pedagogia do Vírus, Buenos Aires: CLACSO.
• Verheij, Geebert (2014). "Colonial monuments in post-colonial times. A statuary of Lourenço Marques", in Farré Torras, Begoña. (org.). Proceedings of the IV Congress of Portuguese Art History in Homage to José-Augusto França. Portuguese Association of Art Historians. Simultaneous Sessions (2nd augmented magazine edition), pp. 36-45. Available in: https://it.scribd.com/document/333336939/Actas-do-IV-Congresso-de-Historiada-Arte-Portuguesa-pdf.

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