Publication details
Belo Monte: Histórias de acelerações e inícios
| Title in English | Belo Monte: stories of accelerations and beginnings |
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| Year of publication | 2025 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Revista Zabele |
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| Keywords | Belo Monte; Dams; Indigenous peoples; Mebengokré; Amazon |
| Description | In this article, we present a reflection on the historical trajectory that led to the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Power Plant, some of its impacts on local people, and the indigenous protagonisms that the work raised. When analyzing the history of the region of Altamira, we observe how Belo Monte constitutes the acceleration of a longterm process of advance of the exploratory and developmental frontier. Simultaneously, we aim to identify a parallelism with complementary political dimensions, which allow us to situate this history in a larger panorama of the definition of relations between indigenous peoples and nonindigenous society. Finally, given the impacts of this great enterprise, we note how the Indigenous peoples resist, gaining new protagonisms, and we focus especially on the activism of the menire, the women of the Xikrin people. |