“None of us belongs to this place”: editing publications as self-organization for the defense and promotion of human rights in university centers in confined contexts

la edición de publicaciones como autoorganización para la defensa y promoción de los derechos humanos en centros universitarios en contextos de encierro

Abstract

Self-managed cultural and communication practices developed in prisons have the potential to reduce and repair the damage caused by confinement. There, various university programs confront the features of a neoliberal prison model that de-subjectivizes and silences, as part of a penal system that builds enemies, questioning the re-socialization project of the prison.

The publications edited within the framework of these programs serve as a memory of a practice of collective organization and communication, preserving the ways in which students deprived of liberty face the logic of rewards and punishments with which the prison system governs, imposing conditions of survival. as an individual privilege and thus pierces the paradigm of human rights. By preserving and circulating the organizational and communication strategies of groups of people deprived of liberty, these publications also make possible the continuity and multiplication of practices in the same sense.

We propose to deploy these hypotheses through the narration of pedagogical scenes that took place during the dictation of the Collective Editing Workshop, an extracurricular course that supports activities in three federal prisons in Argentina since 2008, as part of the Extension Program in Prisons (FFyL, UBA).