Year: 2024
Type: book-chapter
Abstract: This article seeks the interrelationship between the cultural aspects of Law and their contextualization based on Brazilian popular philosophy, bringing as a proposal constitutional decolonization through the marginalized epistemologies of “terreiro peoples” and the categories of collective subjects of Law. In this sense, the article works under the theoretical framework of critical thought on coloniality, going through the socio-historical construction of Law as a Modern/Colonial device for controlling otherness, with the creation of the absolute other. From the perspective of the coloniality of power, being and knowledge, the article criticizes the founding epistemology of constitutional theory, rooted in Eurocentric rationality, betting on pluridiversity as a democratic power for the exercise of citizenship. As a result, it identifies the epistemological “ebó” of Law as a reading key for constitutional decryption, using riotous philosophical analysis as its theoretical-political backdrop, as it suggests, though, a popular constitutional theory.
Source: Revista de Ciências do Estado
Author: Danilo Sardinha Marcolino
Institution: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Language: English
Subfield: Anthropology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410163563