Kaiowcide

Kaiowcide: Living through the Guarani-Kaiowa Genocide is an analysis of the genocidal violence perpetrated against indigenous peoples in Brazil and towards the Guarani-Kaiowa since the 1970s. The book provides a robust interpretative analysis of the causes and the ramifications of the genocidal experience.

Kaiowcide: Living through the Guarani-Kaiowa Genocide is an analysis of the genocidal violence perpetrated against indigenous peoples in Brazil and towards the Guarani-Kaiowa. The ongoing indigenous genocide is defined as “Kaiowcide,” in place since the 1970s, when the Guarani-Kaiowa mobilized a reaction to land grabbing and oppression in the final years of the military dictatorship. The book is based on years of research on the agribusiness frontiers, on the indigenous geography of the Guarani-Kaiowa, and on sustained engagement with indigenous communities. Instead of merely describing the genocidal tragedy, the focus is on the life through genocide and trying to collectively go beyond it. One of the main contributions is to provide a robust interpretative analysis of the causes and the ramifications of the genocidal experience lived by the Guarani-Kaiowa. Rather than focusing on formalist notions of “direct intent” by settlers and governments, as a prerequisite for the tagging as genocide, this book emphasizes the destructive potential of the actors actively involved in agrarian capitalist transformations promoted by the national state in socio-economic frontiers.

Table of Contents

Introduction - Death Shaping the Centre of the Continent

Chapter 1 - The Land and Context of Kaiowcide

Chapter 2 - Indigeneity and Genocide

Chapter 3 – The Genocidal March against the Guarani-Kaiowa

Chapter 4 – Kaiowcide: Talking Genocide Today

Chapter 5 – First Phase of Kaiowcide, 1970s to early 1990s: Indigenous Risorgimento and the Genocidal Response

Chapter 6 – Second Phase of Kaiowcide, mid-1990s to 2007: The Agro-Neoliberal Face of Kaiowcide

Chapter 7 – Third Phase of Kaiowcide, 2007 to 2020s: The Zenith of Hell

Chapter 8 – A Lived Genocide: The Offspring of Kaiowcide

Epilogue: Realisation and Transgression

Acronyms and Terms

Guarani Expressions