Banca de DEFESA: JULIA DOLCE RIBEIRO

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STUDENT : JULIA DOLCE RIBEIRO
DATE: 28/02/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: CPDA
TITLE:

‘TOO MUCH LAND FOR TOO FEW INDIANS’ ('EXCESS LAND FOR TOO FEW INDIGENOUS PEOPLE’) - AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF VOID CONSTRUCTION AS AN ONTOLOGICAL TOOL BY THE PARLIAMENTARY AGRICULTURAL FRONT IN UNDERMINING INDIGENOUS TERRITORIAL RIGHTS

KEY WORDS:

Agribusiness Parliamentary Front; Agribusiness Caucus; indigenous lands; plantation; wilderness; private property

PAGES: 233
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUBÁREA: Antropologia Rural
SUMMARY:

This dissertation is an ethnography of the construction of voids as an ontological device used by members of the Parliamentary Front for Agribusiness (FPA) in the Brazilian Federal Congress, popularly known as the Ruralist Caucus, in an attempt to destroy the legal framework that establishes indigenous territorial rights in Brazil. The notion of the construction of voids is based on the thesis of demographic emptiness (wilderness) – a colonial tool that has historically legitimized the appropriation of indigenous territories by making their people invisible or dehumanized – in order to propose its updating through both the ethnic-racial erasure of indigenous peoples via de-indigenization processes and the utilitarian emptying of the meaning of their territories which do not correspond to the productivist standards of agribusiness. The theoretical framework of the research is rooted in anthropological theory, counter-anthropology, and postcolonial critical race theory, particularly in the works of indigenous and black thinkers who criticize modernity, the civilizing linearity of its historicity, and its production of subjectivities based on ethical figures created by and for white individuals, as a universalizing project that devours the ontologies of racialized peoples through processes of racial subjugation. This framework highlights the centrality of Racial and Colonial factors to the operation in Capital today, and particularly to the performance of agribusiness, through the permanence of the plantation both as a productive system and as a cognitive model. Agribusiness is understood as a nucleus that unites different sectors around the common agenda of the plantation, mainly the defense and absolutization of private land ownership, and guides the legislative activity of the FPA. It is also analyzed as a byproduct of modernity that also aims to project its universality onto racialized peoples, particularly traditional peoples and communities of Brazil, in order to dispute their territorialities and conquer the white capture of their territories. To this end, it is investigated how the commitment of the “farmer/producer” figure, as a transparent and universalizing self of the political synecdoche of “agribusiness is everything”, assimilates counterplantation identities and agricultural practices. This movement is understood as a strategy based on white anxiety and a growing refusal of modernity, materialized in the demographic growth of traditional peoples and communities through identity and territorial recaptures. The dissertation weaves together a broad bibliographic review with records and data collected in archival research at the Digital Newspaper Library of the National Library, the National Archive, the FPA Agency and records of parliamentary meetings; with a survey of legislative proposals on indigenous lands by members of the FPA between the 56th and 57th legislatures; in addition to data from fieldwork carried out in the National Congress and on the BR-163 highway, in order to identify the construction of voids as the basis of the agro-conception of territory.

 

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1513731 - ANTONADIA MONTEIRO BORGES
Externo à Instituição - CAIO POMPEIA RIBEIRO NETO - UFV
Externa à Instituição - CAMILA PENNA DE CASTRO - UFRGS