The Inevitability Of Violence In Brazil

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The idea to revolt and fight back to help preserve notions of rights is not a problem that affects just one culture or country. People have consistently stood up for what they believed was their right, even if this included breaking norms and breaking the law. Frantz Fanon (1952; 1963) asserts the potentiality of violence and inevitability of insurrection by arguing that collective violence creates a catharsis whereby the oppressed, who cannot breathe, are able to restore self-worth and control over their political life through acts of aggression. Similarly, Etienne Balibar (2015) argues that citizenship is imperfect and creates exclusionary boundaries which inevitably leads to resistance, insurrection and insubordination by those who are have negative relations to the existing law and power structures of a society.

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