A INTERCULTURALITY IN THE NEW LATIN AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM:

AN ANALYSIS FROM THE PLURINATIONAL CONSTITUTIONAL COURT OF BOLIVIA

Abstract

This paper seeks to analyze interculturality in the context of the New Latin American Constitutionalism, using the Plurinational Constitutional Court of Bolivia as a reference. Therefore, the objective is to understand the evolution of insurgent constitutionalisms in Latin America and its evolution from liberal multiculturalism to critical interculturality; discuss, in the context of the New Latin American Constitutionalism, about the Constitution of Bolivia and the consequent refoundation of the State and the institution of the Plurinational Constitutional Court of Bolivia; and, finally, to verify how interculturality is revealed in the decisions of that court. Regarding the methodology, the approach used was hypothetical-deductive and the procedure, in turn, functionalist. In the end, it was found that interculturality is a central element for the formulation of the decisions of that court and, more than that, it underlies the ethical-political project of decolonial and emancipatory orientation.