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Indigenous territorialities. Socio-environmental movements. Rondonian Amazon. Militant autoethnography. Territorial resistance
This thesis analyzes, through life history methodology and militant autoethnography, four decades of socio-environmental resistance in Rondônia (1959-2025), using the trajectory of activist Ivaneide Bandeira Cardozo (Neidinha Suruí) as a guiding thread. The central objective is to demonstrate that the organization of social movements, combined with the formation of territorial consciousness since childhood, results in the construction of geographic spaces that respect human rights and nature. Through the analysis of cultural-territorial markers, public policies (Polonoroeste, Planafloro) and indigenous resistance, the research documents fundamental achievements: demarcation of five indigenous lands, creation of 40 conservation units and protection of isolated peoples. The methodology combines sociological phenomenology (Schutz), spatial dialectics (Lefebvre), documentary analysis of personal and institutional archives, semi-structured interviews and 40 years of participant observation. The results reveal that the articulation between indigenous, indigenist and environmental movements, especially during the 1990s, produced significant territorial transformations in Rondônia, but also point to the weakening of these movements from the 2000s onwards, due to the co-optation of leaderships and discontinuity of public policies. The thesis contributes to Human Geography, Cultural Geography and decolonial studies, offering a situated perspective on the production of Amazonian space from the lived experience of historically marginalized subjects.