ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM AND THE ACTION OF INDIGENOUS AND NON-INDIGENE EDUCATORS: dialogues and perceptions of Guarani territoriality
environmental racism, environmental injustice, native peoples, Guarani Mbya territoriality
The thesis investigated environmental racism based on experiences with the Guarani Mbya, of non-indigenous educators, according to the particular perspective of the perception of Guarani territoriality. It reflected on the Guarani cosmovision and its path in the world in the fight for its resistance to its practices, in order to plead its rights, for the referral for environmental justice. It was evidenced that the struggle for civil rights and, above all, the struggle for land, becomes significant beyond Guarani tekoá. In this sense, the general objective was to investigate the perspectives of environmental racism in the performance of indigenous and non-indigenous educators. The thesis, of a basic nature, uses a qualitative approach, regarding the objectives, it is a critical-dialectic research, as procedures I opted for the case study, bibliographical analysis, semi-structured individual interviews and elements of discourse analysis. As research subjects I chose two Guarani Mbya educators and two non-Guarani educators. I show that for the analysis of the participants' narratives, I used elements of discourse analysis, supported by Tommasino (2001), Scanavaca (2020), Ladeira (1994), Brandão (1990), Meliá (1999), Benites (2018 ) and Bullard (2005). The current technological model outlined in exploration to meet the growing consumerism from changes in the environment, led to a process in which profitability, inequality and a vicious circle of programmed obsolescence of everything that is produced were the main goal. The appropriation of natural goods reflected in a pattern in which production has led to great social abysses, characterizing, above all, a great environmental injustice, dehumanization and, above all, evidenced the centrality of the Eurocentric look directed at the original peoples, in this case, the Guarani Mbya.