ERC Consolidator Grant · 2024
Constitutionalism provides a shared-meaning space, in which the idea of rights has served to emancipate individuals. This rights-based constitutionalism is in decline. It has ossified, became isolated from politics, and alienated from people in the West and faced difficulties to take roots in other cultural backgrounds. The problem is that the rights-based constitutionalism is unable to foster collective identity due to its conceptual limitations. Populist movements (secular and religious alike) thrive on this failure and forge a collective identity around simplified and homogenized cultural characteristics, which trumps individual rights and leads to exclusion and social injustice. The…
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