Tragédia e sofrimento: mobilização política de adolescentes e jovens indígenas no Rio Negro

Abstract

This thesis is the result of a field research carried out in the Middle Rio Negro region, at the Santa Isabel do Rio Negro / AM municipality, and extended to the upper Rio Negro region, from the experiences of the movement of the indigenous teen and young, started through the political mobilization of young leaders in São Gabriel da Cachoeira/ AM. This study aims to analyze the process of ethnic mobilization of those individuals, understanding such a phenomenon as a collective expression of a political action that objectifies in the indigenous movement, either through the creation of the Indigenous Teen and Young of Rio Negro Department in the Indigenous Organizations of Rio Negro Federation (FOIRN), or through the creation of the Indigenous Youth Department in the Indigenous Communities of the Middle Rio Negro Association (ACIMRN). I emphasize that the analysis presented exceeds the dimensions institutionalized through the indigenous movement and opens a position to understand the relationships between youth and politics. It also comprises youth demonstrations that are outside the institutionalized fields, but that differently remain in constant dialogue. Beyond the groups organized politically, the analysis comprises the phenomenon of groups of friends, usually classified as "guys". The dialogue among these organizational forms produces what I consider a new political individual. This individual takes the battle flag around the specific public policies for youth - whether they are recognition or identity assertion policies. Thus, this individual is constituted from a process marked by weaknesses and controversies that express a permanent and in construction dynamic, which ends up revealing the conditions and social positions that teens and young Indigenous people occupy in the socio-cultural universe of Rio Negro.