Como a vida se refaz: os caminhos da reterritorialização de atingidos pela Barragem de Irapé do Alto Jequitinhonha

Abstract

The objective of this thesis is to understand the ways of adaptation created by the farmers from Alto Jequitinhonha who had their lands affected by Irapé hydroelectric and were compulsorily relocated to new areas through resettlements. The survey was conducted in six settlements - three that remained in the Jequitinhonha Valley region and three located outside the source region, in the São Francisco and Rio Doce Valleys. It sought to understand how the compulsory resettlement of affected families involved in new building relations in these new spaces, as diverse of old territory in which they lived and that was decisive for the definition of the conditions of material production and social reproduction, the effort was in order to understand the changes in the social organization, economic and cultural life of these groups. It is concluded that these groups created strategies to resist impinged changes and to maintain their farmers condition in that recreated new production systems according to the land type that came to occupy, based on a knowledge built for generations and rebuilt in change.