Indigenous societies in Brazil are facing the biggest challenge in regression of rights achieved in the Constitution of 1988, with intense pressure of opposite interests from the federal government, big ranchers, mining companies and evangelical missions. Indigenous struggle for territory have exposed central contradictions of the inclusive program and sustainable development project of Lula and PT government. Conflicts with indigenous communities have emerged in every corner in Brazil, from southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, to conflicts for land in Bahia and Mato Grosso do Sul, against dams in Tapajós and Xingu rivers in Amazonia, against mining in Pará or illegal logging in Rondônia. Presenting a dynamic of conflicts I will also discuss some theoretical approaches to indigenous philosophy (with readings of Viveiros de Castro, and Davi Kopenawa and Ailton Krenak) as resistances against the State in times of ecological crisis. Indians, according to Viveiros de Castro (2014), are specialized in the end of the world, and we should learn with them how to face the Anthropocene and resist. Bio: Felipe Milanez is PhD candidate and researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais of the University of Coimbra, Portugal as an ENTITLE (European Network of Political Ecology) fellow. His current research focuses on violence, institutions and cultures in the Amazon. Milanez holds a Masters degree in political science by the Université des Sciences Sociales. He has worked as a specialized journalist in the Amazon for 7 years as editor of Brasil Indígena and as the editor of National Geographic Brasil. As a documentary filmmaker, Milanez has also produced and directed the following films: Toxic Amazon (with VICE); Guarani Struggle; I Know What Awaits Me; Cocoa Production and Amazon Forest Conservation, Sounds Machines of the Amazon: Motherboard (with VICE). Milanez was nominated one of Latin Americas Forest Hero by the United Nations in 2012, a special award for the International Year of the Forests.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 20:40:44 +0000
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