Decolonizing Constitutionalism

Beyond False or Impossible Promises
Herausgeber: de Sousa Santos, Boaventura; Andrade, Orlando Aragón; Araújo, Sara

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Produktbeschreibung

Decolonizing Constitutionalism aims to contribute to a post-abyssal reflection on law and constitutionalism by considering the structural axes of power that are constitutive of modern law "capitalism, colonialism, and heteropatriarchy" alongside the legal plurality of the world.

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Produktdetails

• Epistemologies of the South
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 660g
• ISBN-13: 9781032490311
• ISBN-10: 1032490314
• Artikelnr.: 67823630

Autorenporträt

Boaventura de Sousa Santos is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Coimbra (Portugal) and Distinguished Legal Scholar at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also Director Emeritus of the Center for Social Studies at the University of Coimbra. He has written and published widely on the issues of sociology of law and the state, epistemology, intercultural democracy, social movements, postcolonialisms and global citizenship. Sara Araújo is a researcher at the Centre for Social Studies (CES) and invited assistant professor in sociology at the Faculty of Economics, University of Coimbra. She holds a PhD in Law, Justice and Citizenship in the 21st century and co-founded the PhD Programme in Sociology of the State, Law and Justice (CES and FEUC) that she now co-coordinates. She has researched and published on legal pluralism in Mozambique and East Timor, legal decolonization and social justice and cognitive justice in Europe. Orlando Aragón Andrade is a professor and researcher at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (in Morelia) where he is the coordinator of the Laboratory of Legal Anthropology and of the State. His research focuses on the study of indigenous peoples' collective rights, legal pluralism, counter hegemonic uses of law, law's decolonization, epistemologies of the South and, relevantly, the construction of a militant legal anthropology. He is also a legal advisor and accompanies several autonomy and self-government processes in Mexico, as part of the Emancipations Collective, of which he is a founding member.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents:  Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Sara Araújo; Orlando Aragón
Andrade  Preface  Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Sara Araújo; Orlando Aragón
Andrade  Introduction  Part 1.  The vast landscape of constitutionalisms
1.  Issa G. Shivji Do Constitutions Matter? The dilemma of a radical lawyer
2.  Asifa Quraishi-Landes Healing a wounded Islamic constitutionalism:
Sharia, legal pluralism, and unlearning the nation-State paradigm 3. 
Upendra Baxi Nihilisms, contradictions and anomie in new
constitutionalisms: a view from India 4.  Rosalva Aída Hernandez Towards a
New Transformative Constitutionalism Arising from Indigenous Women? 5. 
Sara Araújo Modern Constitutionalism, Legal Pluralism and the Waste of
Experience Part 2. Post-colonial Transitions: the case of South Africa 6. 
Heinz Klug Legacies and Latitudes: Past, present and future in South
Africa's post-colonial legal order 7.  Albie Sachs Superior courts and the
need of transformative jurisprudence. Shared experiences from a South
African judge 8.  Tshepo Madlingozi On Settler Colonialism and
Post-Conquest Constitutionness: The Decolonising Constitutional Vision of
African Nationalists of Azania/South Africa Part 3. The return of the
abyssally excluded?: The indigenous constitutional struggles in Latin
America 9.  Salvador Schavelzon Can silence be a constituent? A reading on
the indigenous-communitarian constitutionalism of Bolivia 10.  Raúl Llasag
Fernández Plurinational Constitutionalism: Plurinationality from Above and
Plurinationality from Below 11.  Nina Pacari Transformational
constitutionalism, interculturality and the reform of the state: looking
through the eyes of the originary peoples 12.  Agustin Grijalva
Participation and Presidentialism in the Ecuadorian Constitution of 2008
13.  Orlando Aragón Andrade Transforming Transformative Constitutionalism.
Lessons from the Political-Legal Experience of Cherán, Mexico 14. 
Boaventura de Sousa Santos The Law of the Excluded: Indigenous Justice,
Plurinationality, and Interculturality in Bolivia and Ecuador Boaventura de
Sousa Santos; Sara Araújo, Orlando Aragón Andrade  Conclusion