Green energy, sustainable life: boosting school education, transmission of traditional practices, and income generation among the indigenous peoples of the Lower Oiapoque and Mapuera-Trombetas-Nhamundá rivers (Calha Norte)

• Grant number: 22/10458-3
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: April 01, 2023
• End date: March 31, 2026
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Agreement: CONFAP - National Council of State Research Support Foundations
• Principal Investigator: Artionka Manuela Goes Capiberibe
• Grantee: Artionka Manuela Goes Capiberibe
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Carina Santos de Almeida ; Danúsia Arantes Ferreira ; Elissandra Barros da Silva ; Lilian Rebellato ; Lira Luz Benites Lazaro ; Luiz Carlos Pereira da Silva ; Marilia D Ottaviano Giesbrecht
• Associated scholarship(s): 25/02068-9 - The impact of technological waste on Indigenous Health: dilemmas faced by the Baixo Oiapoque community, BP.TT; 24/07735-0 - Technical support for field research demands and activities related to the collaborative project Clean energy, sustainable life., BP.TT; 24/05113-2 - Art and Technique: regimes of knowledge, learning and reformulations among the indigenous peoples of Uac'a, in Baixo Oiapoque, BP.PD; 24/00016-9 - Green energy, sustainable life: boosting school education, transmission of traditional practices, and income generation among the indigenous peoples of the Lower Oiapoque and Mapuera-Trombetas-Nhamundá rivers (Calha Norte), BP.TT; 23/04636-9 - Green energy, sustainable data, BP.TT

Abstract

This project poses the following question: How can green electricity impact the lives of indigenous peoples? Through this guiding question, the project will be developed in two distinct regions of the Brazilian Amazon: the region of the lower Oiapoque River, in the state of Amapá, which includes the Uaçá, Juminã and Galibi Indigenous Lands; and the Calha Norte region, specifically the areas referring to the Trombetas-Mapuera and Nhamundá-Trombetas Indigenous Lands. The project's central problem is the precariousness of access to clean energy, which hinders the daily lives of the indigenous peoples in these regions, limiting the possibilities of producing resources for access to goods that have long been incorporated into village life. With electric energy as its basis, the proposal will address the issue of income generation with a focus on the production of artifacts (basketry, ceramics, bead and seed works, among others) both for use within the communities and for sale. In addition, the implementation of electric energy is understood here as a fundamental subsidy for an economic production that associates traditional knowledge with formal school education and the aggregation of value to the commercialized objects. In short, this project is structured in a tripod consisting of: 1) sustainable power generation; 2) fostering productive chains of artifacts; and 3) relationship between indigenous and non-indigenous knowledge. Finally, the project was conceived from the demand of the indigenous peoples of the regions contemplated here and is structured in an interdisciplinary and collaborative way. (AU)