Frontiers created by 'the Others'. Issue 2 (3rd May 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Guedes, Claudia
• Is Part Of: Journal of land use science. Volume 15:Issue 2/3(2020)
• Page Start: 368
• Page End: 372
• Publication Date: 2020-05-03
• Subjects: Indigenous lands -- colonization -- demarcation -- extractivism -- enclosure -- consequences of development; Land use -- Periodicals; 333.7313
• DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2020.1755800
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1747-423X

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper highlights the colonized perspective, and aims to reflect on the consequences of a predominant perspective of land control and use for Amazonian indigenous people. The demarcation of indigenous territories has been presented by external public actors, the 'Others' to explicitly support indigenous people defend their territories. However, demarcation effectively creates a frontier and enclosure which contribute to alienate indigenous people within their new territories. Amazonian groups normally maintain that they belong to the Land, and their historical use of a determined land has been asserted by anthropological studies. But they belong to Land. In contrast, occupying a territory to generate profit allows the exploitation of everything inside it. Every form of extraction helps to reproduce the colonial logic. A key question we need to address is, therefore: Why do the 'others' not feel that belonging?