Trajetórias de vida e de classe : um estudo sobre rearranjos territoriais e identitários na implantação da usina hidrelétrica de Jaguara
Resumo
The purpose of this work aims to reflect on the social trajectory of the families affected
by construction of hydroelectric power plant Jaguara, located and build
between Rifaina/SP and Sacramento/MG, small cities on countryside of Brazil, at the
60's. That decade was marked by a strong authoritarian politics that wanted progress and
society’s modernization by full capitalism insertion on “country/rural areas”. As a result,
the changes were on several and different levels, not just in socioeconomic or
environmental areas, when the use and the occupation of land change completely, the
families were exposed by compulsory displacement that breaks and turns relationships,
culture, customs, values and social routine, changes in various orders. However, the
transformations by hydroelectric power plant construction aren’t only losses but also
gains and opportunities, which will be understood when observing the experiences of the
affected people and the relation between agent with the land, as a work’s place, live’s
place and identity’s place. Basically, the work of remembering the past, exposed the
motivations and justifications of the people that comprising the hydroelectric construction
and compulsory displacement as positive or negative. For the purpose to see experience
and life’s trajectories, the methodological instrument used was oral history through
qualitative interviews, using bibliography research and documental analyses.