Réquiem para Dois Rios: contributos para uma discussão acerca do ativismo ambiental indígena e ecofeminista no Sul Global

Abstract

The environmental crisis has been one of the main concerns of contemporary societies. In this interstice, we have emphasized (eco)feminist action in relation to activism, arguing that both perspectives materialize in specific logics of agency and resistance. In this article, we start from a tripartite theoretical-conceptual approach around indigenous (re)existence, ecofeminism and environmental activism. Therefore, and using an illustrative case, we present the discourses, representations and experiences of Hamangaí Pataxó, an indigenous ecofeminist and environmental activist, as well as analyse the role of organizations such as Engajamundo; an organization of which Hamangaí is a volunteer and activist. Thus, this article is rooted in an exploratory heuristic of uncovering indigenous environmental activism associated with ecofeminism -from a trajectory, a history and a context- in the Global South, namely in Brazil. Thus, we will present a set of claims arising from the existence of an ecofeminist sensibility on the part of a community of indigenous women in the Global South that places at the center of its claims a centrality of body-territory, traditional knowledge, and sensitive practices, assuming the indigenous female body as a reservoir of know-how that has been neglected and whose neglect is at the origin of climatic bottlenecks.