Mudanças e fraturas na inteligibilidade jornalística e a mobilização dos povos originários na luta pelo território no Brasil: disputas, aproximações e tensões de uma cobertura

Abstract

This thesis investigates the construction of what we call journalistic intelligibility on the indigenous issue through four observation sites: the textual production of specific journalistic outlets; the reports of journalists who normally cover this issue; the communication made by indigenous peoples; and a field research at the Acampamento Terra Livre (ATL) in 2024. All these observation sites are mobilized by a cross-cutting issue, which is to understand the frames engendered with and from journalism. We understand, therefore, that the elaboration of intelligibility is not a question only related to the perception of journalists and that it permeates these different aspects. It is important to emphasize that this study, when choosing some sites to examine how journalistic intelligibility on the indigenous issue has been constructed/narrated/documented, takes as its premise the existence of a historical and concrete materiality behind the “frames” to be investigated. The academic and social relevance of this research comes from a crucial moment for indigenous peoples, what they call the “Indigenous Emergency” and for the world, which is currently experiencing a new geological era: the Anthropocene. One of the main markers of the struggle of indigenous peoples is the issue of land demarcation and the loss of territories. At the end of the journey, we reach a turning point: what would be, in the materials examined, the characteristic elements of journalistic intelligibility on the indigenous issue in the contemporary Brazilian context? We identified that this journalistic intelligibility reaches, albeit in a variable and incipient way, all the determinations announced throughout the research: the leading role of the indigenous movement; the territorial struggle; the ATL as a definer of parameters and a temporal and historical marker; the communicative production of the indigenous people themselves; the Anthropocene as an inescapable reality; progressive neoliberalism; the understanding of journalists themselves; the importance of various media outlets that do more accurate and extensive work; the multiplication of other sources of information that fracture the idea of newsworthiness.