The second issue of *From the European South* is titled “Insurgencies from the South and Human Rights". It is introduced by Annalisa Oboe and it investigates ‘insurgent’ thoughts and actions, intended as collective and/or individual examples of forceful claiming and revising of human rights – as discourse and as actual liberties – from ex-centric perspectives. The keywords of the issue (insurgencies, south, human rights) invoke desires and actual episodes of self-assertion of people, activists, intellectuals, writers, artists, conveying a thirst for freedom and expressing a longing for equality and balance in the case for humanity. Which humanity and whose rights was of course open to question, since one of the aims of the issue is to sound ideas of the human and of being in the world as conveyed in epistemologies (and ontologies) of the South, which foreclose the possibility of sealing knowledge and ‘the real’ within a single, hegemonic, uninterrupted narrative. What you find in this issue is a series of engaging responses to these expectations, which focus on the human, humanism, the humanities, and their radical potential. A spirit of resistance and theoretical repositioning is in the contributions: they contain a variety of critical discourses that explore the need and the act of breaking free, rising up, and occupying a public space of transformation. Insurgency – as a physical, intellectual, political, social or artistic gesture – is predicated in the name of survival, desire and change.

Insurgencies from the South and Human Rights (introduzione di A. Oboe)

Annalisa Oboe
Writing – Review & Editing
2017

Abstract

The second issue of *From the European South* is titled “Insurgencies from the South and Human Rights". It is introduced by Annalisa Oboe and it investigates ‘insurgent’ thoughts and actions, intended as collective and/or individual examples of forceful claiming and revising of human rights – as discourse and as actual liberties – from ex-centric perspectives. The keywords of the issue (insurgencies, south, human rights) invoke desires and actual episodes of self-assertion of people, activists, intellectuals, writers, artists, conveying a thirst for freedom and expressing a longing for equality and balance in the case for humanity. Which humanity and whose rights was of course open to question, since one of the aims of the issue is to sound ideas of the human and of being in the world as conveyed in epistemologies (and ontologies) of the South, which foreclose the possibility of sealing knowledge and ‘the real’ within a single, hegemonic, uninterrupted narrative. What you find in this issue is a series of engaging responses to these expectations, which focus on the human, humanism, the humanities, and their radical potential. A spirit of resistance and theoretical repositioning is in the contributions: they contain a variety of critical discourses that explore the need and the act of breaking free, rising up, and occupying a public space of transformation. Insurgency – as a physical, intellectual, political, social or artistic gesture – is predicated in the name of survival, desire and change.
2017
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