Identity and cultural resistance of indigenous peoples in Brazil in the context of the covid-19 pandemic

Abstract

Indigenous rights in Brazil are analyzed through the “place of speech”, a concept that allows clarifying the degree of autonomy of the subjects of discourse, contributing to the formulation of narratives that correspond to the interests of traditional peoples against one of the strategies of the hegemonic powers of the “white”: the use of the third person singular or plural for interpretations of Amerindian identity. In methodological opposition, we seek to understand State policies in the voice of the social actors themselves, in the scenario of inequalities in Brazilian society, aggravated during the current government. Through a comparative and interdisciplinary method, the mobilization and indigenous resistance recorded in academic articles are investigated, with the objective of assessing the degree of autonomy that the selected narratives maintain in the midst of national inclusive speech. As an empirical continent, the investigation focuses on articles from Vukápanavo: Revista Terena, in their synchronicities or departures from journalistic publications in general, taken as control variables. The results achieved demonstrate the indigenous cultural resistance, in the militant rhetoric of writing and in the ethnic mobilization against oppression.