Residency period: August 1, 2016 to July 31, 2017
Resident at IEAT, Maria Fernanda Salcedo Repolês is an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Law of UFMG, in the Department of Labor Law and Introduction to the Study of Law (DIT). Coordinator of the Research Project Time, Space and Meanings of Constitution. Member of the Poles of Citizenship Research and Extension Program. Postdoctoral fellow at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, with a CNPq scholarship. She holds a degree in Law (1996), a Master’s Degree in Social and Political Philosophy (2000) and a Doctorate in Constitutional Law (2006), all obtained from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. She was Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Law at UFMG (2013-2015). His main theoretical interests in the area of Law are Legal Sociology, Philosophy of Law and History of Law, working mainly on the following topics: constitutional identity, civil disobedience, history and culture of Brazilian legal institutions, effectiveness of fundamental rights, art and law, modernity and poverty.
TIME, SPACE AND SENSES OF CONSTITUTION
The research proposed here aims to discuss contexts such as the Brazilian one, in which different times and spaces coexist in tension and requires us to place certain and already traditional representations and translations of Brazil between parentheses, which fail to visualize that plurality and coloniality are marks of the processes of modernization. Seen as tension, the meanings of the fight for rights can make visible the potential achievement of equality and freedom for all, as a process of constant learning and subject to setbacks. From the perspective of space, no longer thought of as physical geography or national territory, but, above all, as relationships that delimit each one’s place in the world, the Constitution can be understood as a space for the dispute of rights. From the perspective of time, these disputes that occurred in the present concatenate disputes between memory and forgetting the past; and between the utopian prospect for the future and the tension between experience and expectation.
Through scientific activities, colloquiums and interaction with research groups, the objective is to discuss the modernization processes in Brazil from its plurality and coloniality; identify its lines of historical continuity and discontinuity; interpret the processes of struggle for rights as a space-time turn of Law; to interpret; from the standpoint erected by the 1988 Constitution, everyday situations that raise the legitimacy or not of institutional mediations regarding the realization of the fundamental rights of historically vulnerable groups; build transdisciplinary responses that transcend polarized and one-dimensional postures of knowledge, problematizing forgotten experiences of social exclusion based on disputes over the meanings of the democratic constitutional project.
As a result, it is intended to produce a book with the theme “Time, Space and the Meanings of Constitution”.