How Western Sovereignty Occludes Indigenous Governance: the Guarani and Kaiowa Peoples in Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Urt,João Nackle
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Contexto Internacional
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-85292016000300865
• topic: Indigenous Sovereignties; Colonisation; Internal Colonialism; European System of States; Social Exclusion

Abstract Abstract: Recent international relations (IR) scholarship has developed a growing awareness of this discipline’s colonial roots, prompting a search for decolonising approaches. This article is about indigenous sovereignties and how they have been occluded in the currently globalised European system of states. The method employed is a case study of two of the most impoverished and brutalised Indigenous Peoples in Brazil: the Guarani and the Kaiowa. In an attempt to transit between the world of Westphalia and non-European worlds, it starts by engaging in a conversation with Guarani and Kaiowa knowledge. Then, through a long-term historical analysis, it examines the main colonial processes that caused the occlusion of Guarani and Kaiowa sovereignty. Finally, it provides a broader perspective on how the diffusion of the European model of sovereignty, confronted with Indigenous resistance, has led to the social exclusion of Indigenous Peoples worldwide.