Name: Carlos Eduardo da Silva Colins
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 16/08/2023
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Sandro Jose da Silva | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| Joana D'arc Fernandes Ferraz | External Examiner * |
| Márcia Barros Ferreira Rodrigues | Internal Examiner * |
| Sandro Jose da Silva | Advisor * |
Summary: This dissertation is part of the line of research socio-environmental studies, cultures
and identities of the Graduate Program in Social Sciences at the Federal University of
Espírito Santo and is linked to the research project of Professor Sandro José da Silva
Anthropology, Human Rights and participation policy". This work focuses on the
meanings of truth produced during the work of the National Truth Commission (CNV),
with special interest in the effects on indigenous peoples. I try to describe the
performance of the public authorities in response to the CNV recommendations,
regarding indigenous peoples, after completing ten years of creation, in November
2021. I focus on the problems that the CNV actions raised for the recognition and
guarantees of indigenous peoples. victimized by authoritarian state abuses, thus
advocating the promotion of transitional rights. First, in the light of concepts from
political/power anthropology and an ethnography of documents, I describe the
production of a state discourse by the CNV for the pretense of national integration/unity
and reparation through the revelation of a national truth used to national
reconciliation. For this set of reflections, I use the analysis of power proposed by Michel
Foucault (1979, 2004, 2005, 2008) and Agamben (2008), related to memory and
testimony as a focus on the production of subjectivities. Secondly, I carry out a
bibliographical analysis on the condition of truth after the Report, based on the
evaluations of scholars and activists about the precariousness of the production of
truth. Finally, I critically consider the legal conditions of reparation and their limits in
their processes of producing truth through memories and the manifestation and
resistance of civil society, the academy, and the indigenous peoples themselves
regarding the truths consigned as evidence for reparation policies, this in turn, which
can basically configure continuities of the arbitrariness of governmentality.
Key-words: Justice, Transitional Justice, National Truth Commission; Indigenous Peoples; Aleturgy.
