The New Constitutionalism Latin American: The Pachamama and its Relationship to the Capitalist Economic Development

Abstract

The New Constitutionalism raises some important trends for Latin America, however, the Constituents of Ecuador [2008] and Bolivia [2009] introduced new ways of thinking, which inevitably broke with the classical conceptions. They proposed a plurinational and decolonialist project and the institution of Pachamama / Nature as a subject of rights. These paradigmatic changes occurred with the dissatisfaction of the Andean society with respect to the classic / capitalist development and its anthropocentric proposal. The Andean populations by understanding the Pachamama / Nature in a biocentric conception does not passively accept the negative impacts of the extractive capitalism.

Keywords

• Novo constitucionalimo, Estado plurinacional, Decolonialidade, Pachamama, Modernidade, Desenvolvimento econômico