The eloquent absence: Brazilian political science, indigenous peoples, and the contemporary Canadian academic debate

Abstract:

An empirical analysis of the Catálogo de Teses e Dissertações of the CAPES and of seven important Brazilian political science journals over the last twenty years shows a significative lack of interest in researching Indigenous issues. This paper uses bibliometric analysis and carries out an extensive literature review of 2,621 papers and 47 Master’s theses and doctoral dissertations to prove this claim and to present to Brazilian readers political science research on Indigenous peoples in Canada, highlighting topics of interest. We then present some critical views of Indigenous policy and studies on this topic in that country. We conclude by calling for the Brazilian political science community, both scholars and students, to establish a research agenda on this important segment of the country’s population.

Keywords:
Political Science; Brazil; Indigenous peoples; Canada