Chairs
• Joao Paulo Allain Teixeira jpallain@hotmail.com
• Nicolo Basigli nicolo_basigli@univali.br
• Thaís Janaina Wenczenovicz t.wencze@terra.com.br

The rise of authoritarian, violent, and hateful rhetoric and policies, together with the expansion of ultra-neoliberal agendas and the digital world, underscores the need to reflect on legal transformations in contemporary constitutionalism. This workshop proposes to discuss the meanings that constitutions assume in the face of new forms of digital domination. It also seeks to articulate the technological context with colonial continuities and the contemporary crisis of democracy.

The workshop aims to bring together research and critical reflections on the impacts of digital and ‘phygital’ (the hybridisation of the physical and the digital) expansion on constitutionalism. It will problematise how digital technology, algorithms, platforms, and data infrastructures challenge classic categories of constitutional law, such as sovereignty, democracy, fundamental rights, citizenship, and the separation of powers.

Priority will be given to approaches that investigate the relationship between digital colonialism and the fragility of constitutional institutions, discussing the effects of new forms of algorithmic governance on democratic legitimacy. Alternatives such as technodiversity and decolonial constitutionalism will be discussed as democratic resistance strategies and means of institutional strengthening.

This workshop seeks to foster interdisciplinary and critical debate on the limits and reinventions of constitutionalism in the digital age.