“The land is not for sale. The land was created by nhanderu”

Kokue jopara versus leasing for agribusiness activities

Authors

  • Felipe Mattos Johnson Universidade de Lisboa

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14244/contemp.v15.1422

Abstract

Leasing on Indigenous Lands is one of the current impasses in life for the Kaiowá and Guarani, resulting from the transformations caused by the advance of agropastoral fronts into their territories from the end of the 19th century. In this article, I intend to discuss ethnographically the monoculture lease and its networks of relations against the kokue jopara, diversified traditional gardens. This phenomenon is linked to direct pressure from agribusiness against indigenous territories and is the trigger for a new form of deterritorialization, which creates a conflict between indigenous people who give in to harassment and those who refuse.

Published

2025-12-22

Issue

Section

Dossier 3: Territorialization processes: resisting, reclaiming, “recovering” and “liberating” bodies, lands and territories (Orgs. Leandro Bonecini de Almeida and Mariana Homem de Mello Reinach)