Decolonizing constitutionalism : beyond false or impossible promises /: beyond false or impossible promises. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Boaventura De Sousa Santos, Sara Araujo, Orlando Aragon Andrade.
• Editors: Santos, Boaventura de Sousa; Araújo, Sara; Aragón Andrade, Orlando
• Contents: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Sara Araújo and Orlando Aragón Andrade Preface Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Sara Araújo; Orlando Aragón Andrade Introduction: The Constitution, the state, the law and the epistemologies of the South 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 Indigenous Women: Towards a New Transformative Constitutionalism? 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 Shared Experiences from South Africa Constitutional Court 8. Tshepo Madlingozi On Settler Colonialism and Post-Conquest Constitutionness : The decolonising constitutional Vvsion 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 of the indigenous-communitarian constitutionalism of Bolivia 10. Raúl Llasag 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. Agustín 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 Conclusion
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (336 pages)
• Subjects: 321.8091724; Constitutional law -- Developing countries; Decolonization
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000914139; 9781000914092
• Related ISBNs: 9781032490311; 9781032490274
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