Ordem e progresso na Amazônia : o discurso militar indigenista

AUTOR(ES)

Kleber Gesteira e Matos

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2010

RESUMO

This dissertation addresses the Brazilian armys discourse on indigenous peoples in Amazonia. The time period of the data collected and analyzed was chosen because of two significant facts regarding the interactions between the army and indigenous peoples: the construction of the ‗Perimetral Norte highway in the early 1970s, in the Brazilian state of Roraima, and the public demonstrations of the generals against the demarcation and homologation of the indigenous land ‗Raposa Serra do Sol, during the year 2008, until the completion of the procedure for regularization of this territory in 2009. Although the military sector is one of those with higher historic, political and ideological expression that creates representations about the indigenous peoples in Brazil, this question has been rarely addressed in academic researches. This study investigates the expressions of the military discourse on indigenous peoples in several sources: speeches organized into projects, explanatory memorandum, statutes, decrees and legal texts; interviews with Army officials granted to the media; speeches addressed to the corporation itself, newsletters, institutional magazines and the Força Terrestre (Ground Force) website; lectures supported by the use of slides made by generals in public events; recording and analysis of the testimony of a general about the ‗indigenous issue; speeches by military in Brazilian Congress; analysis of icons and badges of military units printed on flags, uniforms, cards, brochures, publications, constituting also an imagery discourse that refers to indigenous peoples. In the first chapter of the dissertation, preceding the analysis of this large data set, a diachronic contextualization of the discursive background of the military representation concerning indigenous peoples is presented. In the development of the argumentation, it is demonstrated that the military discourse produces confinement, disciplines bodies and minds, tries to redefine indigenous rights and territories. This proposition reveals that talking is doing something. In this way, military discourses produce realities and consequences, often disastrous, for those of whom they speak.

ASSUNTO(S)

ciencias sociais amazônia discurso militar povos indígenas brazilian armys discourse indigenous peoples border strip

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