"A vida ispinicada”: o processo de deslocamento de famílias atingidas por barragens

Abstract

The history of the construction of hydroelectric projects in Brazil is marked by the developmental discourse, where on behalf of economic growth, the subjects who live in the flooded areas in their has modified their ways of life. The present work has the objective study of implanting the Irapé dam what modifying the water cycles, also modifying the life cycles, provoking the displacement compulsory and the transformations in the lives of the families. In this context, we have residents of municipalities within the Presidente Juscelino Kubitschek Hydroelectric Power Plant, also known as the Irapé Power Plant, which covers municipalities of the Northern and Minas Gerais Meso-Regions and Jequitinhonha. For this purpose, the bibliographical and field research was done, with emphasis on the qualitative methodology. Throughout this study, we have known families who have had their way of life transformed, who resisted and fought before the construction of the hydroelectric dam, and still continue to resist resettlement and also to through migration. The compulsory displacement caused by the construction of the Irapé Hydroelectric Power Plant started a process of change and re-signification of the ways of life, what “ispinicou” families and continues to “ispinicar”.