The genocide of the indigenous population in contemporary Brazil

critical and relational aspects

Authors

  • Alexis Papazian University of Buenos Aires
  • Carlos Federico Gaitan Hairabedian University of Buenos Aires
  • Flavio de Leão Bastos Pereira Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
  • Rômulo Monteiro Garzillo Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo

Keywords:

Genocídio; Povos Indígenas; Multiculturalismo.

Abstract

The article proposes a critical analysis of the prevailing legal definition of the crime of genocide based on the restrictive technical standard adopted by International Law after 1945, resulting from the consideration of the Holocaust as a restrictive reference for the comprehension of the dynamics that led to genocide. Considering contemporary sociological, anthropological and legal views, but also rescuing the classic view of Raphael Lemkin, author of the term “genocide” (1944), new perspectives are proposed which, given the multicultural cosmological references prevailing in non-European cultures, would better serve the protection of human rights and citizenship of minorities victimized by processes of structural extermination, especially the indigenous cultures. Based on Carl Schmitt, Pedro Estevam Serrano and Giorgio Agamben’s reflections, the article identifies exception scenarios in democratic societies that normally precede genocidal structural processes, an essential factor for constructing effectively democratic societies geared to full citizenship.

Author Biographies

Alexis Papazian, University of Buenos Aires

Professor in History and Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the University of Buenos Aires (FFyL UBA). He is a CONICET researcher at the National Pedagogical University, where he is a professor at the Intercultural Education Career. He is also a teacher assistant of Human Rights (FFyL UBA) and at the Master’s Degree in Historical-Archaeological Studies (FFyL UBA). He is a member of the Luisa Hairabedian Foundation and the Network

Carlos Federico Gaitan Hairabedian, University of Buenos Aires

Assistant Professor at the University of Buenos Aires Law School. Human rights lawyer graduated from the Law School of the University of Buenos Aires, a specialist in Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure from the Torcuato Di Tella University. He holds a Master in Law (LLM) in International Human Rights Law and International Humanitarian Law from Washington College of Law, American University of Washington DC, United States. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights at Rutgers University, New Jersey and a board member of The Zoryan Institute. 

Flavio de Leão Bastos Pereira, Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie

Professor of Human Rights Law at Mackenzie Presbyterian University (São Paulo, Brazil). Post-doctoral fellow at the Mediterranea International Centre for Human Rights Research (New Technologies and Law) at the Università “Mediterranea” di Reggio Calabria, Italy. Ph.D. in Political and Economic Law at Mackenzie Presbyterian University. Expert in Genocide and Human Rights at the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies/ Zoryan Institute – University of Toronto, Canada. Visiting Professor at the Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm (TH Nürnberg, Germany). Visiting Professor at the University of Applied Social Sciences in Linz, Austria. Editor in Chief of the Journal of International Criminal Law (Stockholm). Brazil’s correspondent and Managing Editor of the Maastricht Blog on Transitional Justice.

Rômulo Monteiro Garzillo, Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo

Lawyer and Master in Philosophy of Law at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Professor of Constitutional Law and Criminal Procedure at UNINOVE. Member of the Human Rights Commission of the Brazilian Bar Association. 

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