SOBRE A IRRUPÇÃO DO ACONTECIMENTO DISCURSIVO: O CASO DO DISCURSO DE RECUSA RADICAL AO COMPLEXO HIDRELÉTRICO DE BELO MONTE

Abstract

This article examines the socio-historical context that led to the emergence of a new discourse in the order of discourses on the management of natural resources in the Brazilian Amazon: the discourse of radical refusal to the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Complex (CHBM). The discursive event that allowed the emergence and circulation of this discourse was the founding gesture of the Tuíra indigenous woman, who touched the face of the former president of Eletronorte José Antônio Muniz Lopes with her machete during the First Meeting of the Indigenous Peoples of the Xingu in Altamira-Pará, in 1989.The Tuíra discourse was inscribed in a context of conflict between distinct social formations: the Kayapó indigenous social formation, which has a conservative relationship with natural resources, and the capitalist social formation, which has a predatory relationship with natural resources. Tuíra's gesture was a way of expressing the indigenous people's refusal of the environmental destruction caused by the Belo Monte project.