Dissident indigenous subjectivities:

contributions to a reflection on diversities and intercultural meanings at the brazilian university

Abstract

The aim is to weave connections between two fields interested in diversity. On the one hand, the debates about interculturalities – or rather, the challenges present in the demands for decolonization – that have permeated higher education since the adoption on a national scale of affirmative action policies with an ethnic-racial focus. On the other hand, the experiences of sexual diversity of young indigenous university students and which effects of these presences allow us to think about another series of equally intercultural relationships: traditions in conflict, resonances of this reality in ethnopolitical arrangements and the generational drives that affect the geopolitics of knowledge. Problems that emerge in the educational context are emphasized in terms of denials, violence and insurgencies against the phenomenon of racism aimed at indigenous peoples. Methodologically, an intersectional approach was adoptes, which aim to account for intersections in which different markers of social differences are articulated and challenge our interpretations of dynamic phenomena that combine different spheres. Being an eminently qualitative research, the bibliographic survey procedure and the ethnographic approach were used. The discussion points to the fact that an indigenous university subjectivity has been consolidating in which these diversities are demarcated, triggering shifts and epistemic activism in which multiple belongings referring to the different roles assumed are negotiated. It is noted the strengthening of disputes over space for legitimation as emerging subjects of a movement for sexual and gender diversity within the broader indigenous movement, tensioning hegemonic conceptions and practices and sharing engagements and intentions of intercultural recognition that denote existential (re)territorializations integrated into the processes of knowledge construction and its political instrumentalization.