'Rio Negro, We care'. Indigenous women, cosmopolitics and public health in the COVID-19 pandemic.

The purpose of this article is to understand the 'Rio Negro, We Care' campaign in its cosmopolitical implications for discussions of global health and human rights. This article is part of a collaborative process centred on the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira and the Alto Rio Negro region of Brazil. This campaign was developed by the Department of Women of the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of Rio Negro (DMIRN/FOIRN) at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. It had significant effects on the pandemic experience in the region during 2020. The Brazilian responses to the COVID-19 pandemic highlight complex, intersectional and neocolonial processes, associated with what has been understood as the necropolitics led by the Brazilian federal government. At the same time, such responses shed light on the limitations of the biopolitical orientation of public and global health for the management of the pandemic. We seek to narrate a cosmopolitical intervention located 'in culture' as a counterpoint to this process. Our analysis highlights questions in the field of global and planetary health milestones, such as the conditions of legitimacy for cosmological knowledge and care technologies, or the ontological implications of the persistent biopolitical bias of mainstream public health interventions.

De documentos, cactos e vírus: violência sexual, mulheres indígenas e Estado em São Gabriel da Cachoeira / Of documents, cactuses and viruses: sexual violence, indigenous women and the State in São Gabriel da Cachoeira

Nesta dissertação analiso as formas práticas como, entre tensões e saberes, se consolida um contexto crítico de violências e ameaças a mulheres indígenas na cidade de São Gabriel da Cachoeira, e como elas respondem, atravessam e se constituem nele. Para tal, analiso três casos de feminicídio de mulheres indígenas que são lembrados como contendo violência sexual, assim como o início da pandemia de Covid-19 na cidade e as respostas lideradas pelas mulheres. Desse modo, as Declarações de Óbito e Inquérito Policial produzidos em torno dos três feminicídios ajudam a compreender os procedimentos técnicos, a própria produção dos documentos, bem como elucidam o que ocorreu nesses casos específicos. As discussões acerca dos documentos e dos relatos dos moradores de São Gabriel concernentes a esses casos ajudam a identificar saberes produzidos por mulheres que, em diferentes posições os acompanharam. Os saberes das mulheres causam tensões e disputas em relação aos saberes documentais do Estado e de seus agentes. É observado que as relações violentas contra as mulheres na cidade criam resistências e enfrentamentos por vias coletivas e de redes institucionais, de alianças e de afetos. Nesse cenário, que a pandemia de Covid-19 chega à cidade preocupando mulheres indígenas acerca da obliteração das violências que sofrem. A partir disso, o Departamento de Mulheres da Federação das Organizações Indígenas do Rio Negro criou a campanha Rio Negro, nós cuidamos! como forma de resposta a pandemia. Nesse marco foi criada a cartilha Violência Doméstica e Violência Sexual em tempos de pandemia. Redes de apoio e denúncias: você não está sozinha!, prevendo a intensificação e a possibilidade de obliteração da violência contra mulheres.

In this dissertation, I analyze the practical ways in which, between tensions and knowledge, a critical context of violence and threats to indigenous women in the city of São Gabriel da Cachoeira is consolidated, and how they respond, cross and constitute themselves in it. To this end, I analyze three cases of femicide against indigenous women that are remembered as containing sexual violence, as well as the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic in the city and the responses led by women. Thus, the Death Certificates and Police Inquiry produced around the three femicides help to understand the technical procedures, the production of documents itself, as well as clarify what happened in these specific cases. Discussions about documents and reports from residents of São Gabriel concerning these cases help to identify knowledge produced by women who, in different positions, monitored them. Women's knowledge causes tensions and disputes in relation to the documental knowledge of the State and its agents. It is observed that violent relationships against women in the city create resistance and confrontations through collective channels and institutional networks, alliances and affections. In this scenario, the Covid-19 pandemic arrives in the city worrying indigenous women about the obliteration of the violence they suffer. From that, the Women's Department of the Federation of Indigenous Organizations of Rio Negro created the campaign Rio Negro, we take care! as a way of responding to the pandemic. In this framework, the booklet Domestic Violence and Sexual Violence in times of pandemic was launched. Support networks and complaints: you are not alone!, foreseeing the intensification and the possibility of obliterating violence against women