Um interminável Brasil colônia: os povos indígenas e um outro desenvolvimento

Abstract

The article explores the political-normative dispute that confronts, on the one hand, the warnings raised by indigenous peoples about the collapse of the capacity to sustain life on earth, resulting from the rampant exploitation of its natural resources, a perception corroborated by science and expressed in the Anthropocene proposition; and, on the other hand, the articulations and strategies of persuasion employed by a mercantilist ontology that is concerned with maintaining a secular model of development based on the exhaustive and unsustainable economic exploitation of environmental and human resources. The article sheds light on the indigenous action and the form it takes, expressed by the word and the body, and on what it signifies, a cosmopolitics that unfolds on two planes: one pragmatic and urgent, expressed as concern for their very existence as indigenous peoples, in the present; and another, epistemic-ontological, that connects the past, the present and the future, while at the same time interrelating in this temporality all the beings of the planet (indigenous, non-indigenous, animals, spiritual beings).