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The Tame and the Wild
Marcy Norton tells a new history of the European colonization of the Americas, one that places wildlife and livestock at the center of the story. She reveals that it was, above all, the encounters between European and Native American beliefs about animal life that transformed societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Contact Strategies
Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their political autonomy and territorial sovereignty, hundreds of years after the arrival of Europeans? In a study that spans the eighteenth to twentieth centuries and ranges across the vast interior of South America, Heather F. Roller examines this history of power and persistence from the vantage point of autonomous Native peoples in Brazil. The central argument of the book is that Indigenous groups took the initiative in their contacts with Brazilian society. Rather than fleeing or evading contact, Native peoples actively sought to appropriate what w...
Governing the Rainforest
Sustainable development is among the foremost ideas that guide societal aspirations around the world. This text interrogates the concept through a critical lens, examining both its history and the trajectory of its manifestations in the Brazilian Amazon.
Reimagining the Future of Human Rights
This book is the collective effort of participants from Dejusticia’s annual Global Action-Research Workshop for Young Human Rights Advocates. The talented writers featured here are graduates from previous workshops who came together again in 2018 to explore the intersection between research and activism and what it holds for the future of human rights. The authors in this book question traditional methods and explore new ways and visions of advancing human rights in the troubled context in which we live today. Do the struggles of small-scale miners in Ghana, the use of strategic litigation in Lebanon, and the recognition of the rights of nature in India represent evidence for hope? Or is t...
Indigeneity and the Decolonizing Gaze
Against the long historical backdrop of 1492, Columbus, and the Conquest, Robert Stam's wide-ranging study traces a trajectory from the representation of indigenous peoples by others to self-representation by indigenous peoples, often as a form of resistance and rebellion to colonialist or neoliberal capitalism, across an eclectic range of forms of media, arts, and social philosophy. Spanning national and transnational media in countries including the US, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, and Italy, Stam orchestrates a dialogue between the western mediated gaze on the 'Indian' and the indigenous gaze itself, especially as incarnated in the burgeoning movement of “indigenous media,” that i...
Masters of the Lost Land
' Powerful' Financial Times ' More twists and turns than a Hollywood spy thriller' Spectator ' A story we all need to hear' New Statesman ' Gripping... Araujo's accretion of detail has a powerful effect' New York Times ' Excellent' Kirkus Reviews Deep in the heart of the Amazon, an entire region has lived under the control of one notorious land baron: Josélio de Barros. Josélio cut a grisly path to success: having arrived in the jungle with a shady past, he quickly made a name for himself as an invincible thug who grabbed massive tracts of public land, burned down the jungle and executed or enslaved anyone trying to stop him. Enter Dezinho, the leader of a small but robust farm workers' un...
Infraestrutura para produção de commodities e povos etnicamente diferenciados
O presente volume inaugura a série de três livros intitulada Desenvolvimentismo(s) e territórios indígenas: tecnologias de poder e estratégias de luta. A obra aborda os efeitos sociais e danos socioambientais das estratégias de gestão e implementação de formas de exploração neoextrativistas, buscando sistematizar o conhecimento sobre as políticas governamentais dirigidas aos povos indígenas no Brasil contemporâneo, com foco especial nas primeiras décadas do século XXI. Como o projeto foi desenhado em 2015, durante o quarto mandato presidencial do Partido dos Trabalhadores (PT), ele focava, inicialmente, os governos de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2011) e Dilma Rousseff (2...
Decolonising the Museum
Explores the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in the relationship of Indigenous contemporary art with the 'art world'. This monograph focuses on the current boom in Indigenous contemporary art in Brazil, exploring in particular the way that this work interfaces with the art world through exhibitions, and the scope that there is for Indigenous curatorial agency in this relationship. After a brief introduction to Indigenous art, it gives an overview of the evolving relationship between Indigenous art and the art world, exploring in particular the nature of decolonial and/or Indigenous curatorial practice both in Brazil and elsewhere in the world. It then hones in on a recen...
Agronegócio e desconstrução de direitos territoriais de povos etnicamente diferenciados
Este livro é o terceiro volume da coleção Desenvolvimentismo(s) e territórios indígenas: tecnologias de poder e estratégias de luta e se debruça sobre as disputas e os conflitos associados ao avanço do agronegócio. Ele está centrado na atuação política de seus representantes, que buscam a desconstrução de direitos territoriais de povos etnicamente diferenciados, em especial povos indígenas e comunidades quilombolas, assim como nos efeitos sociais mais amplos dessa forma de exploração agrária. Seu indiscutível papel no patrocínio do cenário político contemporâneo torna-o uma questão obrigatória. Os outros dois volumes são: Infraestrutura para produção de commoditi...
Setor elétrico e terras indígenas
Dando seguimento às discussões apresentadas no primeiro volume da série, voltado a obras de infraestrutura em sentido mais ampliado, este livro estreita o foco para o chamado setor elétrico, examinando as imbricações entre a produção e a distribuição de energia elétrica, de um lado, e os povos indígenas, de outro. No período mais diretamente focalizado na série, foi central a discussão em torno da usina hidrelétrica (UHE) de Belo Monte, na bacia do Xingu (que se estende pelos estados do Pará e de Mato Grosso), dando a ver os danos de toda ordem por ela causados, largamente discutidos na mídia e nas ciências sociais. Esse intervalo foi marcado também pelo espectro da const...
