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Volume 4 in the acclaimed series Reinventing Social Emancipation, it assembles first-person narratives from Africa, Asia and Latin America. Wide-ranging explorations of social struggle and progressive politics, these diverse and immediate accounts together provide a powerful invitation to rethink the progressive Left tradition.

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and ILS Distinguished Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been an active participant in the World Social Forum. Most recently, he has published Toward a New Legal Common Sense: Law, Globalization and Emancipation. His Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal-Democratic Canon, Another Knowledge Is Possible: Beyond Northern Epistomologies, and Another Production Is Possible: Beyond the Capitalist Canon are also available from Verso.