human rights, race, gender, Brazilian parliament
human rights, race, gender, Brazilian parliament
From the sociological perspective that different senses and meanings are attributed to the category “Human Rights”, depending on time and space, the central idea of this research is to understand how to “occupy the empty house” of the “category of human rights”, under the perspective of gender and race, Brasília/DF - Brasil. Contatos: +55 (61) 3107-1507/1508 - www.sol.unb.br in the commission of human rights and minorities of the Chamber of Deputies of the Brazilian Parliament, having as reference the discussions for the Constituent of 1987, the Constitution of 1988, the installation of the commission in 1995 until the year 2023. “Empty house” is an instrumental concept of the philosopher Deleuze to indicate categories that can be filled by any meaning depending on time and space and my hypothesis is that the category “human rights” is mobilized at all times in the world and in Brazil politically , militarily, sociologically, morally and ideologically to achieve diverse ends. It takes care of an “empty house”, which is occupied depending on these political struggles and speeches and the content that we attribute to “human rights” throughout our history directly impacts our lives because they place or do not place limits on our sociability. Thus, through the ethnographic method, an attempt is made to carry out a sociological cartography, under the perspective of gender and race, of the meanings attributed to this category “human rights”, in the Commission of Human Rights and Minorities of the Federal Chamber, since its installation in 1995 until 2023, also considering the relevant discussions in the 1987 Constituent Assembly and in the 1988 Constitution.