We Fight for this Land

Siobhán Wills; Cahal McLaughlin

We Fight for this Land

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Abstract

This chapter analyses the opportunities and challenges in the filmic representation
of the impact of ecoviolence on traditional Quilombola1 and Ka’apor
communities in Brazil’s Amazon as farmers and loggers invade their territories
violating the physical and psychological borders of community life, where they
have lived and worked for generations. We reflect on the use of participatory
practice in the documentary film, We Fight For This Land: Ka’apor and Quilombola
Communities in Brazil (2024, 62 mins),2 in an attempt to address the borders
created by differentials in access to resources by filmmakers and participants.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Mind the Gap, Border. Limits and Frontiers
Editors	Aisling Reid, Valentina Surace
Place of Publication	Oldenbourg
Publisher	De Gruyter
Pages	51-61
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-11-144889-3
ISBN (Print)	978-3-11-144769-8
Publication status	Published online - 1 May 2025

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