2015/04/21 by Thaissa S Sobreiro · 1 citation
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · Social Sciences · Health Professions · #Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development #Anthropological Studies and Insights #Indigenous Health and Education #Indigenous #Amazon rainforest #Mobilization #Geography #Indigenous culture #Resistance (ecology) #Ethnology #Political science #Socioeconomics #Sociology #Ecology #Archaeology
paper · doi:10.1080/03066150.2014.993624
openalex publication_date 2015/04/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
Given the importance of land for indigenous peoples, rural out-migration is usually associated with a disruption of indigenous culture. This paper suggests that instead of being a disruptive process, migration can serve as the means for a ‘scale shift’ that transports mobilization capacity from one location to another. This contribution presents the case of Barcelos, in the Brazilian Amazon, where an indigenous movement first arose in an urban area, due to the migration of indigenous activists from other locations, and later spread to rural communities as a result of local migratory circulation. Through alliances with the regional indigenous movement, these rural communities became part of a broader mobilization network that supported the indigenous resurgence in Barcelos.