The Kariri-Xocó and florestania praxis in Brazil

• In Event: 20410 - Unsettling Race and Gender Through Indigenous Sociologies

Abstract

This paper investigates environmental injustice and racism and gender and economic inequalities in territorial disputes between Indigenous peoples and real state private corporations, with the mediation of the State, in the city of Brasilia, federal district of Brazil. These disputes are examined through the lenses of "florestania", a praxis elaborated at the end of the 1970s by Amazonian Indigenous people in Brazil, which has been exercised by Indigenous people in Brazil since then to this day. The paper focuses on the Kariri-Xocó community, with which ethnographic fieldwork was carried out last year. The community have been suffered pressure from real state private corporations with interest in advancing the construction of luxury condominium into the Indigenous territory, but the community have resisted through the praxis of "florestania".

Author

• Carolina Freitas, Bridgewater State University