Description: Table of Contents: Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Sara Arajo; Orlando Aragn Andrade Preface Boaventura de Sousa Santos; Sara Arajo; Orlando Aragn 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 Ada Hernandez Towards a New Transformative Constitutionalism Arising from Indigenous Women? 5. Sara Arajo 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. Ral Llasag Fernndez 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 Aragn Andrade Transforming Transformative Constitutionalism. Lessons from the Political-Legal Experience of Chern, 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 Arajo, Orlando Aragn Andrade Conclusion

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