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Santos Boaventura De Sousa

Haitian RevolutionLast Updated · Apr 23, 2026

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is a Portuguese sociologist and legal theorist whose work on plural knowledges and the epistemology of the Global South has been taken up in vault notes as a theoretical anchor for Jean Casimir's reading of Haitian popular sovereignty.

In the vault's knowledge graph, Santos functions primarily as an epistemology connector inside the Casimir/decoloniality cluster: his distinction between regulation-knowledge and liberation-knowledge provides Casimir with a conceptual...

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Jean CasimirThe Haitians: A Decolonial History2020
Jean CasimirThe Haitians: Chapter Notes — Chapters 7 and 82020
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