OUR LAND, OUR KINGDOM: DECOLONIAL ASPECTS IN THE AMAZONIAN EXISTENCE OF AMAPÁ

Abstract

While colonialism produced the idea of Brazil, coloniality introjected in our imaginaries the conception of our Amazon by reductionisms such as: "forest," "backward place," "land of Indians..." This article seeks to reveal the nuances of an Amazon existence amapaense, where its biology and tropical nature are integral parts of social and culturally diverse constitution, not reductionist element of its national formation. My goal Its try to clarify the real facets of an Amazon society now, where the reality of existence glimpses from Amapá the deconstruction of the colonial reductionist idea of Amazon multiplicities the imagetic unity of "incivility." I justify the proposal for the emergency by thinking about the Amazon: for plural territories; their differences; in the humanization of their subjects. Because Its a qualitative nature, I use bibliographic methodology in the study, and decoloniality is the link that concatenates epistemology and decolonial theoretical framework. By research question - how do the ways of living and everyday Amazonian existences in Amapá align with the intellectual productions of authors who seek to combat the evil of colonialism through decolonial studies? - I propose scientific argumentation who achieves as a result that the nuances of coloniality are an operation that subordinates all those (people and territories) that do not finds the "white" expectations stratification of racial violence and dichotomous inferiorities at the most diverse levels, being the Amapá and its population example of national territory directly affected by the perversity of the colonial optics.