Urbanização extensiva na Amazônia brasileira e formação do movimento indígena

Abstract

According to the Instituto Socioambiental, there are more than 160 indigenous organizations nowadays in the state of Amazonas alone. These organizations represent a form of relationship that was previously unknown to the daily life of indigenous communities. In the present article, therefore, we intended to understand the organizations as part of a process of urban-industrial logic insertion. This was analyzed based on the Extensive Urbanization Theory. Nevertheless, for this process occurs in a non-passive and complex manner, besides involving several aspects of indigenous life, caution is required to deal with it. We resort, for example, to the idea of a differentiation between way of acting in front of political and non-political matters, understood as two different cultures. In this way, we were able to analyze the historical process and protagonism of indigenous in the struggle for the right that they see as theirs. Furthermore, we pinpoint some aspects of a difficult scenario ahead of those organizations in dealing with contemporary public policies.