Direitos Humanos na transição paradigmática: a construção de um pluriversalismo decolonial.

Abstract

This dissertation work aims to analyze the epistemological fragility proposed by the universalist characteristic of human rights proposed since the creation of the united nations (un). Throughout this research, such fragility will be evidenced through brazilian colonization, in a proposal for a decolonial investigation, which brings to light all segregation and silencing suffered by the knowledge and cultures of native peoples, rationally and intentionally determined by the europeanization of standards, presenting the hegemonic epistemologies as guiding the process of ―culturation‖ and ―education‖. Thus, under the guidance of decoloniality studies, theoretically supported by southern epistemologies, which enables an ecology of knowledge leading to a pluriversal understanding of this revisit to brazilian colonization, this study shows how fragile the proposed universalism as one of the characteristics has become. Fundamental to human rights, and through the understanding of decoloniality, how urgent it is to build a pluriversal look at human rights, so that cultural and knowledge diversities and diffusion are not only recognized, but affirmative in their existence. In this way, the dissertation opens the reflection for the presentation of criticisms, giving space to new epistemologies that allow a new understanding about the colonization process, and proposing an inclusive redefinition of these cultures and knowledge. To this end, the following research problem was presented: does the pluriversal construction of decolonialism promote a new understanding of human rights by breaking the paradigm of universality? To obtain the answer to it, the dissertation met the rational choice theory methodologically, which understands that the choices for the choice of universalism as a characteristic happened in a rational way and guided by the preferences and interests of the dominant countries, following a logic of causal mechanisms , allowed through the process tracing method, which unites these causal mechanisms in a logical sequence of facts, through an analytical method in the reconfiguration of latin american thought, through resistance, in a counter-hegemonic view.