Processo de territorialização: impactos sociais com a implantação da barragem do Rio Jequitaí

Abstract

The present work seeks to study and understand the resistance in the struggle for territory in the community of Barrocão and also to analyze the process of territorialization in the population of the community of Barrocão with the implementation of the dam in its territory. It is also intended to investigate the causes and consequences of this work in the Barrocão community, to describe the daily life of the families and to map the territory in a spatial way. The choice of the community of Barrocão is due to the fact that it is one of those that will be completely flooded by the dam of the Jequitai River. In order to understand their desires about the work, we will proceed in the presentation of a social map in which their impressions regarding the idea of belonging to the place they inhabit are shown, in what way they are signified and resignified in the same and also the symbolism expressed by the relations social, multiple uses of land, and how parental, ancestral, and peer relations are established among them. In order to do this, they have created a social map in an autonomous way in which these elements are seen as important to them and they will miss this change to a new territory. In order to understand this particular universe of those affected by the Rio Jequitaí-MG dam, it was also necessary to use not only the ethnography but also the participant observation founded by BRONISLAW and MALINOWSKI and, according to GOLDMAN (2006), its main characteristic is a method based on the presence of the researcher in the place observed, in this case, the Barrocão community, making the observer effectively participate in the ordinary life of the group researched and also better understand the apprehension of logic and the sense of events. Memory is also worked through the use of oral narrative.