La palabra del nos-otros. Reflexiones epistemológicas para la superación de las subalternidades en las luchas por derechos

Abstract

We reconstruct our research practice as a cooperation with a shared sense of justice that comprehends those environmentally affected, a vulnerable population with its health and form of life in risk due to the progress of productive frontiers. We make reflective our work on the construction of meaning with a paradigmatic strug- gle for rights in Argentina: the group of Mothers of Ituzaingó Anexo Neighborhood, affected by the massive use of agrochemicals. We divest from those theoretical frameworks that impose interpretative categories and instead we depart from the concepts found in the in- tersubjective contexts of our research. Firstly, we adress the frame of the use of genocide by the Mothers in their public demands, and then we focus on the potentiality of saying from those designated as subalterns, between vulneration and testimony. Secondly, we present a shifting from the comprehension of the word of “the others” to the participation in the construction of a public problem, including our own voice and the possibility of a “we- others” political speech. The epistemological distinguishing aspect of these shiftings is not an explanation nor a sub- jective comprehension that reifies the leading actors discourse and our’s in academia; is more about an expression of the affirmation as subjects capable of language and action. The attesta- tion of that ethical- poltical correlativity that join us in the difference with the others creates an emerging community weaved in the narrative of rights.