“The future is Indigenous”: APIB’s cosmopolitical activism and the Free Land Camps’ mobilizations

Abstract

Abstract Indigenous political activism has been an emerging subject for International Relations scholars whose work has focused on critical concepts in order to engage difference and democratize the field. In this paper, we discuss the cosmopolitical activism employed by the Articulation of Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB) against neoextractivism in the country. In order to understand how cosmopolitics is deployed, we investigate the Free Land Camps’ mobilizations between 2004 and 2023. We explore the interconnection between Indigenous cosmology and the exercise of politics, arguing that Indigenous activism in the Camps offers a possibility to subvert the artificial boundaries of the international.

Keywords

• APIB
• Brazil
• cosmopolitics
• indigenous peoples