In the Shadow of this Mango tree: Guarani Kaiowá Occupation under Child Protagonism

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Frederico Alves
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Trabalho & Educação (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufmg.br/index.php/trabedu/article/view/25209
• topic: Ocupação Guarani Kaiowá; Trabalho e Educação; Protagonismo Infantil; Occupation Guarani Kaiowá; Work and Education; Child Protagonism; Ocupacción Guarani Kaiowá; Trabajo y Educación; Protagonismo Infantil

What is the role of children in the struggle for land and housing? Investigating child protagonism, this master's research seeks the answer in an analysis of the Guarani Kaiowá Occupation, organized social movement, located in Contagem/MG, in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. Even without direct descent from the indigenous ethnic group, the children of the Occupation are entitled Guarani, as they bear homage to the struggle of the original peoples. GK children work without forgetting their studies, play while fighting, relate affectively under the tree foot of Manga – place of games and meetings, of fresh shade, of political participation, of the feasts and communions, in short, of the community collectivity...