Perspectivas descoloniais e o direito dos povos indígenas ao conentimento prévio

Abstract

This is an exploratory analisys on part of the debate about the rights of indigenous peoples in Latin America to free, previous and informed consent regarding large scale projects that nation states or private companies intend to carry out in ancestral lands, in light of concepts and categories of decolonial authors. Decolonial studies bring to light perspectives of Latin- American activists and indigenous authors who disobey traditional epistemology, and give new interpretation to concepts that might appear as fixed and naturalized in modern western speech regarding the rights of indigenous peoples such as sovereignty and nation-state . The perspectives of these others might allow for inter-espitemic between indigenous peoples and the state. The attempt is to offer a perspective that defies the limits of modern western knowledge and political theories that assume the need of inclusion of others in a dominant society, ruled by institutions whose creation did not take their existence or voices into account. Decolonial studies attempt to establish a dialogue with decolonial subjects and offer approaches that help think the right to prior consent not merely consultation as an aspect of the indigenous claim to political participation and epistemic rights. Some Latin-American experiences resulting from indigenous mobilization have already indicated, specialy organized around four main themes, commented in this work: identity, territory, autonomy and a critical view of development .