"Entre o poder colonial e a razão humanitária: sobre os modos de gestão da população warao".
Warao; Indigenous people; Colonialism; Colonial Power; Humanitarian Reason.
I think that colonialism, understood as a structure where objective relations of force occur based on certain worldviews, is still updated contemporaneously through discourses and practices that trigger colonial power: a power technology exercised over territories and populations classified as “indigenous”. Using what I have called the shared colonial collection, colonialism is repeated with differences, producing countless forms of inequality and asymmetries. For that, racism is essential, as well as a series of knowledge and stereotypical images. Regarding practices, the establishment of spaces of segregation has been one of the main measures to those who supposedly should remain in the era of “discoveries”. So that we can understand how this modality of power operates, I describe and analyze the ways of managing the Warao population, which have been implemented both in Venezuela and in Brazil, in different historical periods. I am particularly interested in humanitarian aid contexts, whose actions are guided by a morality based on the idea of saving lives, alleviating suffering, and protecting people, which has served to justify military interventions around the world. From a procedural approach, I go through the pages of a long history, articulating the synchronic and diachronic perspectives. Thus, we will see how power has been exercised over the Warao and how they have reacted, trying to break with the chains of the colonial gear.