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

Bibliographic Data

ID5353464
AuthorsJosé Miguel Nieto O Olivar (0000-0002-7648-7009, Universidade de São Paulo, corresponding author), José Miguel Nieto Olivar
Year2020
Pages78-94
Publication date2020-06-05
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueGendering Security and Insecurity (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429203824-6
OpenAlexW4254524129, W2886292742
ISBN9780429203824
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited27

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

Amazon basin · Amazon rainforest · Biology · Criminology · Geography · Indigenous · Political science · Social science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Computer Science · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Sex work and related issues · Ecology

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