Retomada Aty Jovem: insurrections on the edge of becoming

Abstract

This article aims to present fragments of an ethnography realized between 2017 and 2020 in different Guarani and Kaiowá land recuperations in Mato Grosso do Sul, with special emphasis in role that young warriors play in this struggle, considering a reality affected by State and corporate violence, orchestrated through mechanisms of necropolitics associated to agribusiness’ war machines. Assuming the continuity of coloniality and internal colonialism, we will try to understand the formation of the Retomada Aty Jovem (RAJ), an assembly that acts as important instance of mobilization and recuperation of the Guarani and Kaiowá youth before the pressures stemming from the national society, based upon State terrorism and overexploitation of work as tools used by the capitalist karai reko – non-indigenous way of life – that intent to neutralize insurgencies and to incorporate new areas to the State and capital dynamics. The focus of this proposal will be anchored mainly in the narratives and speeches of this youth in permanent resistance, that reveal itself as a new segment of self-organization and self-analysis.