Pyahu kuera: uma etnografia da resistência jovem guarani e kaiowá no Mato Grosso do Sul

Abstract

The present research proposes to think the new resistance of the Guarani and Kaiowá youth, when fighting the central problems identified and opposed by them contemporarily in their communities and confrontation against capital, patriarchy and the State. The purpose is to describe the constitution of this movement and the social actors that participate on it, and constitute a particular generational segment, articulated around a distinct comprehension refered to the way of conducting the political activity. The methodological procedure will be the realization of an ethnography through an engaged anthropology and critical solidarity, where fragments of autobiographies of the G uarani and Kaiowá youth, which act mainly through the Retomada Aty Jovem (RAJ) assembly, reveal testimonies of State violence, and put in perspective their role in the war produced by agribusiness in the expansion of agricultural frontiers. The ethnographic experience lived by the researcher seeks to connect local to global dimension, to identify precisely the multiple political actors, their connections and contradictions, accordingly with the walks and affections we built in the recovered Tekoha lands. This work also dialogues with anthropological studies about social organization and cosmopolitics, as well as literary and sociological approaches about the ways of communicating memories disturbed by the world system’s violence. Historical insights that review the process of territorial expropriation against the Guarani and Kaiowá are also considered, what leads to the actuality of the crisis generated by the colonization fronts in Mato Grosso do Sul.