FROM WINNIE MANDELA TO THE BAIXADA FLUMINENSE

Abstract

In this article, I draw attention to the experience of establishing the Winnie Mandela People’s Court and the People’s Court of the Baixada Fluminense as spaces organised and designed by various social actors (relatives of the victims, grassroots movements, social movements and human rights organizations) interested in producing methodologies for political advocacy on rights violations and deadly violence perpetrated against black people. However, I am also interested in analysing them as bearers of experiences of the small points of everyday life: the slight misfortunes and minor calamities that, added to the existing precarious conditions, devastate the ways of living and of making the world for black people. It is a matter of understanding necropolitics from the standpoint of both big events marked by brutal and disruptive processes of black annihilation, and also the small points considered routine – minor losses and potential difficulties encountered in the pursuit of access to certain rights.

Keywords

• justice
• people’s court
• anti-black genocide
• mothers
• relatives