BY ACTIVISM CARE PRACTICES

FACETS OF HARM REDUCTION IN BRAZIL

Abstract

This work argues in favor of Harm Reduction (HR) strategies as activist care practices. For this, it presents a theoretical problematization of health care strategies triggered by the HR policy, punctuating vectors of potency (moving life to the fluidity of singular inventions) and crystallization (binding life in universal moralist traditions and submissive to capitalist modes). Two operators guide the problematization: a) Activism, as a positioning that potentiates the becomings of groups (Félix Guattari, 1985) and flock (Eric Hobsbawm, 2000); b) Care, as a practice of estrangement from health regulations. To this end, this study is supported by the contributions of the Philosophy of Difference and advocates the production of activism as care and care as activism as a possibility to build other forms of political corporeality in the face of affective-political strategies of control.