Jose Manuel Mendes Editor

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Director Emeritus of the Centre for Social Studies 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 publications are (with Maria Paula Meneses) Knowledges Born in the Struggle: Constructing the Epistemologies of the Global South (2019) and The End of the Cognitive Empire: The Coming of Age of Epistemologies of the South (2018).

José Manuel Mendes is an Associate Professor with Aggregation at the University of Coimbra (Portugal). He is also researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, where he works in the fields of risk and social vulnerability, planning, public policies and citizenship. His most recent work in English is (with F. Freitas) “Disaster, Reconstruction, and Data for Social Good: The Case of Wildfires in Portugal,” International Journal of Disaster Resilience in the Built Environment (2019).