Workshop my Paper Series – Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism: Response to Commentators

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Workshop my Paper Series – Grand Narratives of Transition and the Quest for Democratic Constitutionalism: Response to Commentators

Theunis ROUX

Rather than responding to each comment seriatim, I will engage with what I take to be the three main themes running through them: (1) the existence of a diverse tradition of anti-colonial thought in India not fully captured by the dichotomy I draw between the Liberal-Progressivist and Culturalist Grand Narratives (the LPN and CGN); (2) the value of using that dichotomy as a heuristic device for understanding debates over the future of constitutionalism in India and South Africa as against recognising a wider variety of constitutionalisms; and (3) the generalisability beyond India and South Africa of the dialogue I reconstruct between the LPN and the CGN.

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Global Varieties of Constitutionalism and Contestations of Liberalism: How do Theunis Roux’s Grand Narratives on India and South Africa fit in?

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Global Varieties of Constitutionalism and Contestations of Liberalism: How do Theunis Roux’s Grand Narratives on India and South Africa fit in?

Michael RIEGNER

In 2016, Mark Tushnet called for “a richer taxonomy of varieties of constitutionalism” that would “unsettle the view that liberal constitutionalism simply is constitutionalism, and that all other varieties are defective”.

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Beyond a Bimodal Southern Democratic Constitutionalism

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Beyond a Bimodal Southern Democratic Constitutionalism

Heinz KLUG

Theunis Roux has made an important contribution in stimulating a debate over the nature of ‘Southern Democratic Constitutionalism’ (SDC) and what he describes as the two approaches to SDC which he places in dialogue with one another while arguing that they together reflect and contribute to a single dynamic version of SDC

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