This is a space for conversation leaders and guests to pose questions, propose ideas, share successes, tactics, tools and resources with one another that have not been addressed in other threads.
I would like to share with you all a very creative and beautiful project, by Laila Sandroni and Bruno Tarin, from Brazil. Entitled Tupi Vivo – Affective Cartography, this work is part of an artistic residency grant that wanted to show from a very innovative perspective the voice of the indigenous peoples of the Tupinambá village of Olivença, in the south of Bahia. The producers said that their work had the goal "to promote aesthetical interactions between contemporary art and popular culture".
With the Constitution of 1988 was created the legislative opening required for the recognition of Tupinambá and other peoples. In the 1990s, there was an escalation in the struggle for the territory demarcation based on a process of “re-taking” the land and the culture stolen from them. In 2001, the Tupinambá of Olivença were finally officially recognised by the National Indian Foundation and the demarcation of the Indigenous Territory was published in 2009.
However, this initial demarcation was never approved and now the process is stalled in the Ministry of Justice. The state held three changes in the boundaries, in line with the interests of the big cocoa producers of the region. Several political and institutional forces act to stop the ratification of the territory and the terms established by federal courts are constantly postponed. Today there are over 6,000 Indians living in Tupinambá territory, meanwhile the struggle for their territory continues.
Thank you for sharing this example. I was very intriqued by the process used for Affective Cartography. The relational aspects resonate very much with our New Tactics tactical map tool. It does not map a geographical territory as some of the other posts in the other threads have shared, but similar to the Affective Cartography, examines human relationships that are engaged, involved, invested or responsible for human rights issues. Decisions about human rights issues always come back to people making choices about their actions (actual behaviors), public policies and laws that are or are not created and the implementation or non-implementation of those policies and laws.
I would like to also highlight some of the other great posts in the other conversation thread regarding mapping:
The post regarding the primer on using technology for protecting Indigenous land rights that has been developed by a partnership between The Engine Room and the Rainforest Foundation Norway
The District Six Museum in South Africa utilized a memory-mapping process, to document their community that was destroyed by apartheid policies, and was used for a land reclamation claim. The museum organized and hosted one of the Land Courts on its site. Former residents sat in chairs directly on the map of their old neighborhood, as the court granted them, in the words of one, “our land back, our homes back, our dignity back.” (see page 11 of document)
Does anyone have any examples where results of actual geographical land mapping has been able to gain reparations for Indigenous peoples?
I would like to share with you all a very creative and beautiful project, by Laila Sandroni and Bruno Tarin, from Brazil. Entitled Tupi Vivo – Affective Cartography, this work is part of an artistic residency grant that wanted to show from a very innovative perspective the voice of the indigenous peoples of the Tupinambá village of Olivença, in the south of Bahia. The producers said that their work had the goal "to promote aesthetical interactions between contemporary art and popular culture".
With the Constitution of 1988 was created the legislative opening required for the recognition of Tupinambá and other peoples. In the 1990s, there was an escalation in the struggle for the territory demarcation based on a process of “re-taking” the land and the culture stolen from them. In 2001, the Tupinambá of Olivença were finally officially recognised by the National Indian Foundation and the demarcation of the Indigenous Territory was published in 2009.
However, this initial demarcation was never approved and now the process is stalled in the Ministry of Justice. The state held three changes in the boundaries, in line with the interests of the big cocoa producers of the region. Several political and institutional forces act to stop the ratification of the territory and the terms established by federal courts are constantly postponed. Today there are over 6,000 Indians living in Tupinambá territory, meanwhile the struggle for their territory continues.
Check their website http://www.en.tupivivo.org/