If not human, monster: for a contemporary perception of human rights

Abstract

Based on studies on monstrosity, in a prospect of observation of these figures as representations of what is rejected by the idea of the human, it seeks to stress for who and how human rights fall on and how these bodies should be understood, using a decolonial reading key, which seeks to break with a structure of control, thinking in a contemporary context of plurality, in which no type of structural, symbolic and corporeal violence should exist. At first, we go into how the figures of monsters work as social metaphors for those who are inside a bubble of hegemonic patterns. In a second moment, it is proposed to analyze the key to a decolonial reading and its framework in view of a proposal to change current human rights. Finally, the aim is to stress what we are talking about, in a contemporary context of political-legal-social struggle, when we are talking about human rights.