Banca de DEFESA: SIMONE BORGES DOS SANTOS

Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : SIMONE BORGES DOS SANTOS
DATE: 30/01/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/kmw-ckug-mrd
TITLE:

Angela Davis and freedom as a constant struggle 

KEY WORDS:

Angela Davis; freedom; prisons; race; women

PAGES: 100
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Filosofia
SUBÁREA: Ética
SUMMARY:

This dissertation addresses Angela Davis' critique of “freedom,” focusing on a crucial problem she identifies: Freedom for Black men and women is limited, for it does not exist as a lived reality. Taking up this assertation, this project aims to investigate the mechanisms that capitalist systems utilize to limit the freedom of racialized groups. First, it examines how racialized peoples construct their own ethical-political relations when their freedom is  hindered by the invention of race and otherness. Second, it examines the conditions through which these people, who are objectified and marked by difference, can be recognised as rational subjects with desires and, above all, rights. This project demonstrates that “freedom qua the pillar of democracy,” a discourse used by neoliberal states, holds a contradiction. This contradiction is evident in the staggering number of human beings that are incarcerated daily. Capitalist democratic governments, motived by financial gain, use the fallacy of the “War on Drugs” to this end. These governments depend on racial oppression and limit the rights of some groups of people to secure the rights of others. The prison system transforms into a punishment industry that uses racism and xenophobia to supply prisons, disproportionately incarcerating Black people. Here, torture practices are used for bodily coercion and docility, although bodily torture is not generally permitted within these democratic insitutions. Still, women of color live through and resist these conditions. Black women in particular present abolitionist alternatives, allowing an understanding of other ethical-political possibilities. She has always been active in all emancipatory movements; she led marches against the lynchings of black men; she used, and uses, art to reveal pain, strength and the struggle to overcome. Because she is at the base of most hierarchies of oppressions, the task of freeing herself from subjugation and violence falls on her body. Her freedom is therefore freedom for others.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - ALAN DA SILVA SAMPAIO - UNEB
Presidente - 1856247 - JULIANA ORTEGOSA AGGIO
Externa à Instituição - MARIA CRISTINA LONGO CARDOSO DIAS - UFES