ABSTRACT
This work aims at discussing the intrinsic relation between rights and duties from the standpoint of recent studies on the critical intellectual's social role, and at the same time putting forward some discussions that I have been developing around the social role of the university regarding the constitution of hegemonic knowledge and the emergence of other epistemological possibilities (CORREA, 2017aCORREA, D. A. (2017a). Entre hegemonias, saberes subalternos e possibilidades epistemológicas: discussões iniciais. L&S Cadernos de Linguagem e Sociedade, v. 18, p. 219-235.). A third point of discussion connected to the themes above, refers to decolonization policies to the detriment of the act of decolonizing in order to arise issues that might lead to reflections upon being a politicized thinker and, consequently, politicize doings in the pragmatic perspective. Finally, to propose a reflection upon human rights, I resort to an analysis of the projects coordinated at the "Laboratory of Text Studies" (LET) at the State University of Ponta Grossa (UEPG), a work proposal named after the laboratory whose participants are juvenile offenders in socio-educational measure. Taking into consideration the complexity of social relations and their inequality and exclusion systems, I finish the text emphasizing the necessity to create horizontal dialogues with other epistemologies, non-legitimate knowledges and social experiences that also produce knowledges and built references to different social actors.
Keywords:
Rights and duties; Struggles; Epistemological possibilities