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Violence, the state and gendered indigenous agency in the Brazilian Amazon

Year: 2020

Type: book-chapter

Abstract: The aim of this article is to understand feminine and indigenous forms of agency , especially that of the young women living in a specific Amazonian city, and the ways these forms emerge within and against the grammatical frame of insecurity, fear, death, and segregation that is produced by the Brazilian neo-colonial project in the Amazon. I am interested in understanding the ways in which these women relate to a frame that places them in an ordinary state of exception between violent death and biological reproduction. I argue that the practices of sexual and economic exchanges between indigenous women and ‘white men’ are fertile for reflecting on these forms of agency in a frame of colonial contest . Finally, I suggest that these forms of agency indicate an analogy with counter-colonial mechanisms of cultural cannibalism .

Source: Routledge eBooks

DOI: 10.4324/9780429203824-6

Author: José Miguel Nieto Olivar

Institutions: Universidade de São Paulo, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo

Language: English

Topic: Gender, Violence, Rights in Latin America

Subfield: Sociology and Political Science

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

SDGs: Gender equality, Peace, justice, and strong institutions, Reduced inequalities

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Universidade Estadual de Campinas