Mulheres indígenas em redes: cosmologias, singularidades históricas, resistências e conhecimentos em elaborações ativistas

Abstract

The present research offers an analysis of the profiles of indigenous women in order to investigate their discursive productions inserted in multiple networks. The starting point of this undertaking is the web, understood as a heterotopic territory for the writing of their self-narratives that tell the stories of the present through enunciated activists. In addition to this network, indigenous people undertake their narratives spread in other spaces such as universities, movements of political organizations and also in their poetics, spaces where art can be understood from its original perspectives. The theoretical-methodological enterprise is guided by the articulation between two fields: the Discourse Analysis of an archegenealogical character undertaken by Michel Foucault, basically in the definition of “device”. In this architecture, we use the association of the theoretical displacement undertook by Neves (2009, 2015) on the Foucaultian device, which resulted in the apprehension of the “colonial device”. In addition to this field, Decolonial Studies focusing on Walter Mignolo, Aníbal Quijano, Julieta Paredes and Maria Lugones are also relevant. In this endeavor, we base our analyzes on the understanding of the four lines that make up the Foucaultian device: Visibility, Enunciability, Strength and Subjectivity. These lines outlined by Deleuze (2006) make it possible for us to apprehend the sedimentations implanted by the device throughout history towards indigenous subjectivities. On the other hand, the self-narratives undertaken by indigenous women activists reveal the fissures or fractures they create within the device. From this theoretical perspective, the subjects of this research (re) elaborate their subjectivities and build resistances through making activists visible on the web.