Presença, chamado, reflorestar: criações políticas da marcha das mulheres indígenas

Abstract

This thesis is an elaboration on the political creations of indigenous women, whose presence has been gaining emphasis in recent years, having their agendas gained greater visibility in the face of a scenario in which actions such as the 1st March of Indigenous Women in Brasília-DF in the year of 2019. The thesis follows the notions of presence, call and reforest that emerged from fieldwork in the period between 2019 and 2022, in which I followed the 1st March of Indigenous Women (2019), the 2nd March of Indigenous Women (2021) and the online events that took place in the period between marches (which coincides with the covid-19 pandemic). During the marches, an alliance is formed between indigenous women, a circumstantial, unified, but heterogeneous we that brings its aspect of cosmochoreography, given the multiple manifestations of songs, dances and movements, and aspect of uprising for life, from the composition between indigenous collectives and with allies to opposition to the policy of death, whose main vectors are the government and its anti-indigenous allies. The expression politics of presence reports that what is present during the marches: body, ancestry, land and care. These presences give the political creations of indigenous women their own contours, such as the aspect of the return of the feminine, from a subversion of colonial gender violence and from the call for the (re)creation of life and indigenous worlds, existential retakes. It is also worth mentioning that the call of land is extended by indigenous women, set in motion, it is therefore a call to the (re)creation of life and indigenous worlds, but also a call to listening and action for non-indigenous society, a recipe for resistance, reforest as a care with. The marches are, therefore, national events carried out by indigenous female leaders that count on the presence of indigenous women from all regions of Brazil, who meet in Brasília-DF to talk, speak, sing, dance, move, and thus fight for the guarantee of the (re)creation of life and of diverse indigenous worlds.