Imaginaires Politiques, Subjectivité Et Résistance

From a decolonial perspective, modernity is represented by the interweaving of capitalism and colonialism, reinforcing the modus operandi that characterizes subjugation: conquest, violence and oppression. The colonial relationship imposes itself and legitimizes a process of servitude that still shapes the power.

If, on the one hand, modernity has created a conception of the Subject interwoven with a perverse logic of subjugation, on the other hand, the Agency reveals repertoires of action and protest emancipatory that have an impact on the political imaginary.

The anti-racist and feminist “political occupation” movement was the object of my ethnographic research from 2017 to 2019 in Brazil, facing the rise of state authoritarianism and neoliberalism and its institutions. In a movement of political subjectivity from the margins, tactics were adopted to resist and disrupt instituted power relations. I propose to return to these experiences of dispute and the construction of Brazilian political imaginaries.