Dependent capitalism and territorial expropriations of the Guarani and Kaiowá, in Mato Grosso do Sul

• Grant number: 18/25482-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: February 01, 2019
• End date: June 30, 2020
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Edmundo Antonio Peggion
• Grantee: Gabriel Moraes Ferreira de Oliveira
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências e Letras (FCL). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Araraquara. Araraquara , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Today, the Guarani and Kaiowá are fighting for traditional territories, which they call "Tekoha", in Mato Grosso do Sul, presenting itself as one of the most dynamic movements in the agrarian conflict. These struggles constitute a territorial barrier, local, as well as ideological-cultural, in contradiction to the global expansion and the way of using the capital over the territories. The Guarani and Kaiowá are ontologically contradictory to the state (CLASTRES, 1979; CLASTRES, 2003; CLASTRES, 2014) and to the private property of the land, claim to be, according to reports obtained by me, a "against the fences" people. It is in this work to investigate what are the concrete causes of expropriations territorial relations suffered by them and also the multiple violence, their possible relations and articulations to the Brazilian dependent political economy and the global expansion of capital, the articulation of this global movement to the local, to the Guarani and Kaiowá territories (SANTOS 2006; SANTOS 2009), and possible solutions to the question brought by Guarani and Kaiowá and also by scholars of the subject.