Human rights, political action and oceanic subjectivities

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to reflect on how local struggles and their movements around the discourse of human rights can be elevated to the condition of political action. It is the attempt to broaden the concept of politics in view of the power of transformation contained in the collectives of subjectivities bearing common experiences of violence and suffering. Using the concept of quilombo in Beatriz Nascimento, we will seek to justify the extension of the idea of politics from two configurations: the territorial dispute and the connectivity between specific knowledges from the struggles. To do so, we will compare the thinking of Nascimento with the contemporary philosophy of Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari. The hypothesis is that the concept of political action would require a widening in its formulation to encompass the multiple forms of daily resistance.