Through the use of social mapping techniques, the research work of the New Social Cartography of the Amazon Project (PNCSA) seeks to analyze the differentiated processes of territorialization which are currently underway in the Amazon region. In doing so, the work focuses on the relationship between these processes and the emergence of collective identities embedded […]
Indigenous Cartography in Acre
“The map is the mirror of our community, it serves to show what we learn and helps in understanding the territory.” IAAFs Raimundo Kaxinawá, 20081 The experience reported here refers to the Pro-Indian Commission of Acre (CPI / AC), which has been working to produce “Indigenous Cartography” with Indigenous Agroforestry Agents (IAAFs) as a means […]
Militarization of Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas
A young woman, identified only as Carolina, was going to school when the police raided her house. Grassroots communicators were violently prevented from doing their work and recording police operations in the favelas occupied by the Pacifying Police Unit (UPP) in Rio de Janeiro, which is a sign of the criminalization of social movements and […]
