Insurgent spatial practices of the indigenous movement in Brazil in the face of the contemporaneous juridical-legal offensive

Abstract

This paper analyses some insurgent spatial practices from the indigenous movement in Brazil considering the contemporaneous conjuncture of juridical-legal offensive. Firstly, we have offered as a background a discussion about the problem of the colonial origin imposed by the modern State in what we call America, an element that is present until today in countless conflicts of territorialities in our continent and that have repercussions on current indigenous spatial practices. Afterward, we have contextualized the juridical-legal offensive in contemporary Brazil, highlighting the thesis of the marco temporal ("time frame”) still being judged in the Federal Supreme Court and the main Bills in progress in the National Congress that constitute an anti-indigenous agenda. Next, we have focused on the insurgent spatial practices, notably the retomadas and self-demarcations, and, in addition, the constitution of networks and the politics of scale. In the following section, we have deepened the analysis of a territorial experience of self-demarcation related to the Munduruku Planalto people, in Santarém, western Pará. Finally, we have concluded by highlighting the limits of the logic of the modern State facing reconquest and defense of indigenous territories.

Keywords: Indigenous Movement. Juridical-Legal Offensive. Insurgent Spatial Practices. Munduruku.