How Western Sovereignty Occludes Indigenous Governance: the Guarani and Kaiowa Peoples in Brazil



Document title: How Western Sovereignty Occludes Indigenous Governance: the Guarani and Kaiowa Peoples in Brazil
Journal: Contexto internacional
Database: CLASE
System number: 000443518
ISSN: 0102-8529
Authors: 1
Institutions: 1Universidade Federal da Grande Dourados, Dourados, Mato Grosso do Sul. Brasil
Year:
Season: Sep-Dic
Volumen: 38
Number: 3
Pages: 865-886
Country: Brasil
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Analítico, descriptivo
English abstract Recent international relations (IR) scholarship has developed a growing awareness of this discipline’s colonial roots, prompting a search for decolonising approaches. This article is about indigenous sovereignties and how they have been occluded in the currently globalised European system of states. The method employed is a case study of two of the most impoverished and brutalised Indigenous Peoples in Brazil: the Guarani and the Kaiowa. In an attempt to transit between the world of Westphalia and non-European worlds, it starts by engaging in a conversation with Guarani and Kaiowa knowledge. Then, through a long-term historical analysis, it examines the main colonial processes that caused the occlusion of Guarani and Kaiowa sovereignty. Finally, it provides a broader perspective on how the diffusion of the European model of sovereignty, confronted with Indigenous resistance, has led to the social exclusion of Indigenous Peoples worldwide
Disciplines: Historia
Keyword: Historia regional,
Brasil,
Indígenas,
Guaraní,
Colonialismo,
Exclusión social,
Kaiowas
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