- Research Article
- 10.22409/geographia2025.v27i59.a60096
DISTOPIAS COLONIAIS NA AMAZÔNIA: AS COLONIALIDADES DO HABITAR E DO TERRITORIALIZAR
- Nov 19, 2025
- GEOgraphia
- Jéssica Poliane Gomes Santos + 2 more +2
Based on studies of colonialism, this paper discusses the ideas about the colonized forms of acting, thinking and appropriate space, especially around the concept of housing and ownership of the territory, in the Amazon region. For this, through a bibliographic analysis, I describe and discuss two specific examples, namely, the implementation of the Housing program in territories of Agrarian reform by INCRA and the implementation of the Concession of Right of Use (CDRU) to traditional populations in Conservation Unit for Sustainable Use. Finally, the discussion around these examples, seeking to correlate the elements that reveal the heritage and permanence of coloniality and how this process goes against other realities, which consequently result in dystopias in the ways of conceiving space, conditioning it to a significant deprivation of reproduction of local geographies. Nevertheless, this article is developed the idea that the Amazon is a world of antithesis locus based on the European experience. In several aspects, the region and its peoples have demonstrated and mainly resisted this linear idea of coloniality, showing themselves as a “counter world”, which reveals other possible world possibilities besides the Eurocentric hegemonic concept.
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