Notas sobre direitos humanos, eurocentrismo e necropolítica: outras rotas possíveis.

Abstract

The production of this article started from individual difficulties to elaborate classroom experiences, capable of making students, in High School classes in Campina Grande - PB, understand the extension of Human Rights beyond the Eurocentric perspective. At first, the relationship between the “official history” of Human Rights and the delimitation of the concept of humanity was analyzed. Subsequently, the selectivity of the concept of “self-evidence” was identified as part of modern biopolitics. Soon after, it became possible to identify the relationship between colonialism, necropolitical practices and the “selective universalization” of such rights. Finally, genealogical movements, the exercise of the educator function and literature are proposed as instruments for the production of Fundamental Rights from the margins, in a decolonial epistemological perspective.