Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território

This study presents the main contributions of Latin American decolonial and feminist thinking to geographic studies on body-territory. The research was carried out in the light of the phenomenological method. Through field research, it was verified the relational praxis between the bodies of women l...

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Main Author: Hellen Virginia da Silva Alves
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Published: Confins 2021-12-01
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description This study presents the main contributions of Latin American decolonial and feminist thinking to geographic studies on body-territory. The research was carried out in the light of the phenomenological method. Through field research, it was verified the relational praxis between the bodies of women living in the Kaxarari and Rio Guaporé Indigenous Lands and the territory. It was found that the decolonial and feminist thoughts found valuable sources in both the worldview and the historical resistance of Aboriginal peoples to colonialism and coloniality. These sources contributed to the updating of the geographical concept of territory, which was previously based exclusively on Eurocentric standards. The main responsible for the extension/modernization of the geographic look on the body and the territory were Latin American Indigenous women and feminists, as they brought the interrelationship between body-territory-land to the center of the geographic and political debate, expanding the scales of analysis and the meanings of these categories. For them, the material and immaterial relations that the bodies maintain with the territory (and their worlds) ensure the existence of the collective in conditions of dignity, which is why the defense of the territory becomes a defense of the very life of the collective body.
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spelling doaj-art-525343031e6646dd9b04c884ab96aaeb2025-01-13T15:54:18ZengConfinsConfins1958-92122021-12-015310.4000/confins.43017Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-territórioHellen Virginia da Silva AlvesThis study presents the main contributions of Latin American decolonial and feminist thinking to geographic studies on body-territory. The research was carried out in the light of the phenomenological method. Through field research, it was verified the relational praxis between the bodies of women living in the Kaxarari and Rio Guaporé Indigenous Lands and the territory. It was found that the decolonial and feminist thoughts found valuable sources in both the worldview and the historical resistance of Aboriginal peoples to colonialism and coloniality. These sources contributed to the updating of the geographical concept of territory, which was previously based exclusively on Eurocentric standards. The main responsible for the extension/modernization of the geographic look on the body and the territory were Latin American Indigenous women and feminists, as they brought the interrelationship between body-territory-land to the center of the geographic and political debate, expanding the scales of analysis and the meanings of these categories. For them, the material and immaterial relations that the bodies maintain with the territory (and their worlds) ensure the existence of the collective in conditions of dignity, which is why the defense of the territory becomes a defense of the very life of the collective body.https://journals.openedition.org/confins/43017TerritoryBrazil.bodydecolonial thinkingIndigenous women
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Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território
Confins
Territory
Brazil.
body
decolonial thinking
Indigenous women
title Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território
title_full Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território
title_fullStr Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território
title_full_unstemmed Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território
title_short Contribuições decolonais e feministas ao debate geográfico sobre corpo e território: mulheres da Terra Indígena Kaxarari e Rio Guaporé e a defesa do corpo-território
title_sort contribuicoes decolonais e feministas ao debate geografico sobre corpo e territorio mulheres da terra indigena kaxarari e rio guapore e a defesa do corpo territorio
topic Territory
Brazil.
body
decolonial thinking
Indigenous women
url https://journals.openedition.org/confins/43017
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