What if exploring transdisciplinary companionship in Human Rights education (original) (raw)
This text explores the urge and potentialities of transdisciplinary collaborations between Law and Human Rights education and artistic approaches and practices to possibly offer tools to mitigate against an abstract and dogmatic understanding of terms such as dignity and freedom. Terms that, in juridical science, always require other words to be explained and that swiftly turned into abstract and conceptual notions. In this reification process, we risk losing their concrete experiential significance, reaffirming the disconnection between Human Rights and its embodied and situated account instead. We intend to cast light on the urge to find ways of practising juridical education that reconciles with the person’s embodied experience and learning capacities. Through one’s own body and biographical narratives, as we have verified, it is possible to enter in dialogue with oneself and others to comprehend more profoundly otherwise abstracted and dogmatic juridical concepts. This text intertwines with our personal narratives; this is because biography, with its sensibility, longings and desire, is the ground where we embody the contradictions and tensions between the flux of becoming and the tendency to categorize and fix life into schemes and fields of expertise.
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