Decolonizing constitutionalism : beyond false or impossible promises / edited by Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sara Araújo, Orlando Aragón Andrade.
By: Santo, Boaventura de Sousa [Editor].
Contributor(s): Santos, Boaventura de Sousa [editor.] | Araújo, Sara [editor.] | Aragón Andrade, Orlando [editor.].
Publisher: New York Routledge 2024Description: xv,338p.ISBN: 9781032490311; 9781032490274.Subject(s): Constitutional law -- Developing countries | DecolonizationDDC classification: 342.0091724 Summary: "The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied. This book 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. Is it possible to decolonize, decommodify, and depatriarchalize the constitution? The authors speak from multiple geographies, raise different questions, resort to differentiated theoretical approaches, and reveal varying levels of optimism about the possibilities of transforming constitutions. The readers are confronted with critical perspectives on the Eurocentric legal canon, as well as with the recognition of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-patriarchal legal experiences. The horizon of this publication is the expansion of the possibilities of legal and political imagination"--| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| 341.765 BEN-G Globalization and health: challenges for health law and bioethics | 341.7702 CRY-P Prosecuting international crimes: selectivity and the international criminal law | 342 COM; Comparative constitutionalism | 342.0091724 DEC- Decolonizing constitutionalism : | 342.02 COM- Comparative Constitutionalism | 342.02 PYL-; Select Constitutions of the World | 342.02 SOC- Social And Political Foundations Of Constitutions |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"The modern state, law, and constitution result from a legal canon that (re)produces the abyssal lines dividing the world that is validated from the world whose humanity and epistemological validity are denied. This book 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. Is it possible to decolonize, decommodify, and depatriarchalize the constitution? The authors speak from multiple geographies, raise different questions, resort to differentiated theoretical approaches, and reveal varying levels of optimism about the possibilities of transforming constitutions. The readers are confronted with critical perspectives on the Eurocentric legal canon, as well as with the recognition of anti-capitalist, anti-colonial, and anti-patriarchal legal experiences. The horizon of this publication is the expansion of the possibilities of legal and political imagination"--
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