Necropolitics, State of Exception, and Violence Against Indigenous People in the Amazon Region During the Bolsonaro Administration

Rapozo, Pedro

doi:10.1590/1981-3821202100020003

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“…Regrettably, areas of tropical savannas are particularly under pressure for agriculture and livestock, undergoing an alarming rate of degradation. Recent changes in Brazilian environmental policy have resulted in an alarming increase in the rate of deforestation in Amazonia (Pereira et al 2019, Rapozo 2021), many times associated with wildfires (Silva et al 2021). Although fire is a key factor for the maintenance of typical savanna species, the increase of anthropogenic fires associated with climatic change may lead to the loss of bird diversity.…”

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Effects of fire regime on the bird community in an Amazonian savanna

Coelho

Ritter

Lima

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Savannas are ecosystems maintained by fires, characterized by a fire-adapted biota, and savanna patches occur in Amazonia in patches surrounded by tropical forest. Different fire regimes can generate structurally diverse vegetation, and savanna birds are known to be closely related to vegetation structure. However, long-term approaches and interaction of fire with other environmental factors need to be explored for the better understanding of the effects of habitat fire on birds. In an Amazonian landscape composed by savanna and forest, we investigate the effects of different fire regimes in a 12-ha area in three periods through 23 years. We also examined the effects of frequency and extent of fires, tree cover, and distance to forest on bird composition in twelve 3.7- ha savannas plots. Birds were surveyed with mist-nets and species were classified as to their habitat use by comparison of registers in forest and savanna plots through visual/acoustical surveys. After 13 years of fire suppression, many forest species colonized the area and some savanna species were lost. Fire frequency and tree coverage affect avifauna communities. The avifauna was sensitive to the occurrence of fires, independent of fire extent. After one fire event in a plot that had been protected from fire for 12 years, some savanna species returned. These results highlight the effects of the fire regime on birds species composition and indicate that many savanna bird species depend on the occurrence of regular fires.

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Effects of fire regime on the bird community in an Amazonian savanna

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Lima

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“…This pattern also applies for micro-racist reflexes within societies such as the stigmatization of the African American or Native American "welfare mum" in the US, whose motherhood is neither favored nor protected (Fixmer Oraíz 2019), or anti-indigenous racism e.g. in Brazil (Rapozo 2021).…”

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Global Contestations of Gender Rights

2022

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is university lecturer for economic sociology and the sociology of work at Universität Bielefeld's Faculty of Sociology. She is member of the editorial board of the Femina Politica. Zeitschrift für feministische Politikwissenschaft. Julia Roth is a professor for American studies with a focus on gender studies and director of the Center for Interamerican Studies at Universität Bielefeld, Germany. She is PI of the graduate school "Experiencing Gender" at Universität Bielefeld. Heidemarie Winkel is a professor of sociology at Universität Bielefeld and senior research associate at the VHI/St. Edmund's College, Cambridge University (UK). She is a member of the editorial board of the ZRGP (Journal for Religion, Society and Politics) and is PI of the graduate school "Experiencing Gender" at Universität Bielefeld.

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“…Thus, such acts of defense are not restricted to unequal distribution of natural resources (Larsen et al, 2021;Scheidel et al, 2020;Verweijen et al, 2021;Zeng et al, 2021), but, above all, threats to land and territory and forms of social reproduction (CPT, 2017b). There are also major issues of negligence by the state regarding social protection and affirmation of rights (Rapozo, 2021;, 2022Villén-Pérez et al, 2022). CPT (2015;2016;2017a;2020a;2021a) When we add the effort of groups seeking access to property and permanence on the land (landless and settler groups, 40.61%) to the struggle of these defenders, the total constitutes 65% of defenders who are threatened with death Pará state, from 2014 to 2020.…”

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“…The fallout from these measures has been discussed by Araújo (2020), Thomaz et al (2020), , Menezes & Barbosa Jr. (2021), Rodrigues & Kalil (2021), Rapozo (2021), Pelicice & Castello (2021), Souza et al (2021) and Deutsch & Fletcher (2022). Dismantling of environmental governance in Brazil is not merely a rhetorical and ideological mechanism conducted by a national political group, but a political tactic designed to legitimize the promotion of "total neoextractivism" (Buzogány & Mohamad-Klotzbach, 2021) and the economic and political support of neoextractivist agents for hegemonic political groups.…”

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Environmental defenders suffering death threats and "under protection" in the state of Pará, Eastern Amazonia, Brazil

Rodrigues

Campos

Santana

2022

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Latin America has a long history of extractive and exploitative territorial activities, dating back to the colonial era. However, in the last decade there has been a steep increase in these activities, and in socio-environmental conflicts, in Latin America. There are indications of the links between the exploitation of natural resources and the violation of human rights, which materializes in the Amazon through the increase of expulsions and evictions of families, assassination attempts, murders, illegal imprisonments, intimidation, and threats. The main targets of these crimes are leaders who head the struggle to defend the rights of collectivities to land and territory, the environment, human rights and their multiple cultural and life expressions. The state of Pará (Eastern Amazonia) has appeared in the last decade as one of the states in Brazil with the highest incidence of cases of land conflicts, assassinations, aggression, defamation, and death threats directed against community leaders and environmental defenders. Thus, this article aims to quantify, characterize and reflect on the environmental defenders and community leaders suffering death threats and under legal protection in the state of Pará, Eastern Amazonia (between 2014 and 2020). It also seeks to identify the main activities and sectors that threaten these groups and the reasons behind the intensification of threats in recent years.

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Necropolitics, State of Exception, and Violence Against Indigenous People in the Amazon Region During the Bolsonaro Administration

Cited by 24 publications

References 4 publications

Effects of fire regime on the bird community in an Amazonian savanna

Effects of fire regime on the bird community in an Amazonian savanna

Global Contestations of Gender Rights

Environmental defenders suffering death threats and "under protection" in the state of Pará, Eastern Amazonia, Brazil

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