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SUMMARY:Felipe Tuxá (UFBA\, Oxford): "Are ‘autodemarcações’ a form of ref
 usal? Imagining the future with the Tuxá community of São Francisco Rive
 r\, Brazil"
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DESCRIPTION:Part of the University of Manchester's Centre for Latin Ameri
 can and Caribbean Studies' research seminar series:\n\nWed 30 October 20
 24\, 5pm (UK time). This event will take place in Samuel Alexander Build
 ing\, room A214. It can also be followed online: https://zoom.us/j/95860
 231166\n\nAbstract: In Brazil\, Indigenous struggles for territories gen
 erally employ two modes of occupation and organization: retomadas (retak
 ing lands) and autodemarcações (self-demarcating lands). Although each I
 ndigenous people has its own strategies to recover stolen territories\, 
 connections established between Indigenous social movements\, plus the h
 istorical alliances and networks of relationships between different grou
 ps\, lead us to explore the similarities and specificities in Indigenous
  struggles for land in Brazil. This presentation looks at the autodemarc
 ação of the Tuxá people in Dzorabábé (aka Aldeia Avó\, in Rodelas in the
  State of Bahia)\, which began in 2017. The Tuxá’s remarkable autodemarc
 ação seeks to re-establish the community\, of which I am part\, on the b
 anks of the São Francisco River (known locally as “Opará” or River-Sea)\
 , from where they were systematically removed from 1988\, due to the Ita
 parica Hydroelectric Plant. After decades of waiting for different gover
 nments to proceed with the land regularization\, the community came up w
 ith plan to occupy the area\, build fences and carry out the territorial
  demarcation themselves. This presentation foregrounds Tuxá voices in th
 e process\, exploring how autodemarcações challenge the State’s sovereig
 nty by refusing to recognize its monopoly over the demarcation of Indige
 nous territories. I also highlight the meanings of land\, of inhabiting 
 the land and of articulating traditional knowledges with creative new wa
 ys of living\, in the face of the state’s inoperability. By weaving the 
 historical web that leads the community to recover this portion of its a
 ncestral territory\, I seek to connect past\, present and future\, highl
 ighting the dreams that we can dream together and alongside the Opará Ri
 ver\, and the desires we have for future generations.\n\nDr Felipe Tuxá 
 is an indigenous anthropologist of the Tuxá people from Rodelas\, Bahia\
 , Brazil\, and a professor at the Department of Anthropology and Ethnolo
 gy of the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA). He is currently a visiting
  researcher at the University of Oxford.
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LOCATION:A214\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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