Banca de DEFESA: HELLEN VIRGINIA DA SILVA ALVES

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : HELLEN VIRGINIA DA SILVA ALVES
DATE: 01/12/2025
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

Indigenous Women. Guaporé River, Kaxarari and Sete de Setembro Indigenous Lands. Body-territory. Community feminism. Political Protagonism.

PAGES: 340
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

Since the colonial intrusion in Latin America, indigenous women have resisted the invasion of their bodies and territory. The relationship they maintain with the territory in which they live is sacred and permeates the understanding of cultural aspects that make their bodies inseparable from it. Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception and the approach of decolonial feminist geography help non-indigenous society to understand that, for them, territorial defense ensures the life of the collective, or better, the life of the body-territory. Following the changes occurring in the “white man's” society, their resistance strategies have been given new meaning throughout history with the intention of finding solutions to various problems that arose or were intensified through contact. These problems are complex and require the articulation of the ancestral knowledge of each people with the knowledge of non-indigenous society, as they originate from aspects external to the culture of indigenous peoples. For a long time, the main political action strategy of indigenous women was the exercise of agency over the men of the collective, but this is an ineffective strategy in certain areas, especially in issues related to gender-based violence and the predatory exploitation of natural resources. Mining and illegal logging, land grabbing, social prejudice, excessive consumption of alcoholic beverages, food insecurity, difficulty in accessing basic services such as health, education and security and various forms of violence against women woman are some of the daily threats to the body-territory. In the Brazilian Amazon, women from the Rio Guapore, Kaxarari and Sete de Setembro Indigenous Lands face several daily challenges to defend their body-territory, as their demands are not always recognized and validated by formal leaders, who are generally men. This situation led them to think about new ways to defend the body-territory and the fight for spaces of political protagonism inside and outside their territories is the main strategy they chose. Knowing that each people has its own culture and way of life and that each territory has particularities capable of intensifying internal and external problems and tensions, it was necessary to analyze culture, the territorial and social characteristics of collectives, the complex meaning of what is “being an indigenous woman and living in the territory” to understand the importance of spaces of political protagonism as a survival strategy for women in the Rio Guapore, Kaxarari and Sete de Setembro Indigenous Lands. Feminist and decolonial geographic analysis anchored in academic production and social activism of community feminism, written and lived by indigenous women from Latin America, is an innovative proposal that brings these women to the center of the debate, as protagonists, and reverberates for the world the power of their voices, based on the strategies adopted for their spatial resignification. The search for political protagonism for women in the three territories researched permeates empowerment, the redefinition of spaces for female dialogue and the new possibilities for political and socioeconomic configurations of collectives. They result in the concrete possibility of improving the quality of life of the community, as they have extremely important knowledge for the elaboration, execution and improvement of public policies aimed at the indigenous population.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - ROBERTA CARVALHO ARRUZZO - UFRRJ
Interno - 1810294 - ADNILSON DE ALMEIDA SILVA
Interno - 396900 - JOSUE DA COSTA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - LARISSA ZUIM MATARESIO - UNIR
Presidente - 6396896 - MARIA DAS GRACAS SILVA NASCIMENTO SILVA
Externa à Instituição - XÊNIA DE CASTRO BARBOSA - IFRO