Constitutionalism in globalization: an analysis of the new Latin American constitutionalism

• Autor(a) principal: Mello, Rafaela da Cruz
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Eletrônica Direito e Sociedade - REDES
• Texto Completo: https://revistas.unilasalle.edu.br/index.php/redes/article/view/2717
• topic: Globalization; State; Constitution; New Latin American Constitutionalism.; Direito Constitucional; Mundialização; Estado; Constituição; Novo Constitucionalismo Latino Americano.

This study aims to analyze, through the hypothetical-deductive method of approach and monographic procedure, how globalization, the proliferation of standards from different sources, species and origins affects constitutionalism and the notion of State since that the rules of economic and market predominate in society today. Without forgetting that globalization should also encompass cultural phenomena, the question that the article seeks to answer is: in a context of globalization that brings state crisis and fragmentation of the law and the Constitution, what is the importance of the new Latin American constitutionalism to strengthen pluralism and culture of the Social southern countries, especially Bolivia and Ecuador? After the work is concluded that although globalization, from the economic point of view, spread to uniform rules and the weakening of the state and of constitutionalism, appreciation of culture and identity that is made by the new Latin American constitutionalism movement can be one by Alternatively towards offering offensive to modern binary logic and homogenizing tendency of globalization.