Health and violence: indigenous women and knowledge production in São Gabriel da Cachoeira.

• Grant number: 23/02593-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Start date: April 01, 2023
• End date: March 31, 2024
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: José Miguel Nieto Olivar
• Grantee: Elizangela da Silva Costa
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Saúde Pública (FSP). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 21/06897-9 - Cosmopolitics of Care in the End of the World: Gender, Borders, and Pluri-epistemic Assemblages with Public Health., AP.JP2

Abstract

In order to strengthen the collaborative work between the Women's Department of the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of Rio Negro, the Instituto Socioambiental (Rio Negro) and the Observatory of Gender Violence in Amazonas (UFAM), a Master's student will conduct an anthropological research,in an ethnographic basis, located in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira (AM). The esearch aims to understand the ways in which indigenous women mobilize cosmopolitical relationships and knowledge in order to confront the dynamics of violence and the ways to care in the context of Covid-19 illness. The student must participate in Knowledge Meetings (Encontros de Saberes) and Future-building Workshops (Oficinas de Composição de Futuros), as well as in the production of a Transmedia Platform that will be created for the project, and in training processes with students from theUniversity of São Paulo Faculty of Public Health. The student will have the opportunity to develop anexcellent training process and his/her/their research skills, seek international partnerships and internships, collaborate with an heteroclit and interdisciplinary team of researchers and collaborators, and publicize important research results.