Ecos coloniais: decolonização e Necropolítica no pensamento de Achille Mbembe

Abstract

Starting from a curiosity to better understand the culture of which I belong, I’ve put myself to investigate the history of Latin America, with a focus on the colonization process that continues to the present day. Understanding that this is a visceral project, it is still possible to perceive its effects in various areas of everyday life, such as politics or religion. For this study, I went through the works of authors from other places, but who were also targets of this process, such as the african Mbembe who coined the term necropolitics to explain the current ways of doing politics; brazilian indians and other latin intellectuals, in search of a narrative of the peoples who had their speeches suffocated and their stories told by third parties. Faced with this terrible panorama, the idea is to overcome this necropolitics to a new form of politics, without ethnocentrism, but rather, a collective elevation in humanity, helping to think new paths, new ways of being in the world and to relate to the Other.