In this second episode of PG Focus, Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos (plenary speaker at the 2009 BSA Annual Conference) is interviewed by Lucy Mayblin (PhD researcher, University of Warwick).  The discussion focuses on themes such as;

*Popular knowledges and new epistemologies.

*Intercultural human rights vs. universal human rights.

*Hegemonic discourses, neo-liberalism & the 2008-9 financial crisis.

*The status of stateless peoples, refugees and undocumented migrant workers.

*Cultures of democratic participation across the world.


Professor de Sousa Santos holds a chair at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) as well as a directorship of the Centre for Social Studies; and is a Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (USA).  He is also Global Legal Scholar at the University of Warwick (UK).

Lucy Mayblin is a PhD student at the University of Warwick, where she is funded through an ESRC studentship.  Her research interests are in Political Sociology with particular attention to the areas of human rights, asylum and immigration, citizenship, and the relationship between identity and nation state territory.

This episode was produced, edited and hosted by Mike Bracher, for the BSA PG Forum.

A transcript of this episode can be downloaded here

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