Schwöbel-Patel, Christine (2020) Global constitutionalism and the geopolitics of knowledge. In: Dann, Philipp and Riegner, Michael and Bönnemann, Maxim, (eds.) The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law. Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism ; Oxford comparative constitutionalism . Oxford : Oxford University Press, pp. 67-85. ISBN 9780198850403

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Abstract

Is (global) constitutionalism epistemologically colonized? What does epistemic coloniality in (global) constitutionalism mean if one takes material conditions seriously? The point of departure of this chapter is what Walter Mignolo has called ‘the geopolitics of knowledge’: the observation that knowledge is situated within the particular geopolitical context from which it emerges and travels. It reveals not only epitstemological origins but also the colonizing properties of ideas. In order to inquire into the geopolitics of the knowledge of global constitutionalism, the chapter first considers the coloniality of (domestic) constitutionalism and then sets out the influence of three generations of thinkers who aimed to globalize constitutionalism. The combination of intellectual history (drawing on Quinn Slobodian’s important work on the so-called ‘ordo- globalists’) and structural analysis (drawing on a Marxist tradition) is intended to provide an insight into the ingrained biases at the origins of (global) constitutionalism, and how these have travelled. These biases are shown to be central to inequalities that characterize the legal-institutional neoliberal order.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	K Law [Moys] > KC International Law
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Law
Series Name:	Oxford Comparative Constitutionalism ; Oxford comparative constitutionalism
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:	Oxford
ISBN:	9780198850403
Book Title:	The Global South and Comparative Constitutional Law
Editor:	Dann, Philipp and Riegner, Michael and Bönnemann, Maxim
Official Date:	29 October 2020
Dates:	Date Event 29 October 2020 Published
Number of Pages:	320
Page Range:	pp. 67-85
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	Published
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