A Latin American conceptualization of human rights would be sociopolitical rather than legal as the major contribution of the region to discourse has been its philosophy of action and the practice of social movements inspired by this philosophy. This article proposes a way to conceptualize human rights that recovers the historical legacy of social struggles from a discursive perspective, relying in particular on ideas of genealogy and intertextuality.
Human rights; Latin America; theory; political sociology; discourse