Avante juventude pataxó

Uma reflexão sobre participação e cidadania à luz da experiência dos jovens indígenas pataxó do sul da bahia

Abstract

This paper reflects on the participation ways and challenges of the Pataxó indigenous youth according to the limits of the institutionalized participation model, aiming to detect insurgent grammars, as well as new paths for social formation and the development of participatory citizenship. This purpose is conditioned by the current political context, in which popular participation is no longer seen as a legitimate principle of government, but as an obstacle to be repressed and progressively eliminated. Faced with a government that is clearly   against the participation instances, we propose to reflect on the issue by observing the Pataxó Youth Council of Bahia (CONJUPAB) as an empirical referent, from a performative ethnography in a condition of engaged/implicated research as a research method. Recent studies point to an ongoing process among social movement actors who reconsider recent history and question themselves about the most effectives ways of mobilizing and interfering with the decision systems that are concerned to them. Our purpose is to answer if the Pataxó Youth’s experience is configured as a product of participatory-democratic innovation and under which circumstances it happens.