“Na calçada, pra planejar, pra sonhar”: a espacialização do movimento dos atingidos por barragens no Ceará

Abstract

Water and energy are fundamental resources for the capital accumulation, especially at the present moment of its development. At the same time, the main means of obtaining these resources are responsible for promoting attempts at domination and producing spaces for capital reproduction. However, the spatialization of these attempts of domination does not occur without resistance, and these processes of resistance also have spatialities. In light of the above, the Movement of People Affected by Dams (MAB) has been, since the year of its nationalization in 1991, the most expressive representative of the struggle of those affected and affected by dams in Brazil. In this research, I present the genesis of MAB in Ceará, which was born with the construction of the Castanho Dam. The dam work, carried out between 1995 and 2003, planned during the Government of Changes in the 1980s, reached the municipalities of Jaguaribara, Jaguaribe, Jaguaretama and Alto Santo. I also present how the spatialization of MAB occurred in the State from the implementation of technical objects in space and the formation of Movement’s Regions of action. Cast as the general objective of the research in development to discuss the process of spatialization of the Movement of People Affected by Dams in the State of Ceará. I have as specific objectives to interpret the birth process of MAB in Ceará; understand the specificity of MAB in Ceará from a scalar perspective and understand which are the spaces built by MAB in the state. The methodology of this research is divided into three stages. The first corresponds to the bibliographical survey of the material already produced about the study and documentary research; the second stage is carrying out exploratory field work associated with non-structured focused interviews and participant observation (MARCONI and LAKATOS, 2003); and the third stage corresponds to the transcription of the interview audios, information’s organization obtained from the documentary research and writing of the dissertation. This dissertation contains five chapters: The first presents an introduction about the subject studied; In the second chapter I present the theoretical basis used in the research reported here. In the third chapter I discuss the birth of the MAB in Brazil and the scalar performance of the Movement; Finally, I present the process of emergence and spatialization of the MAB in Ceará, highlighting the regions where the Movement

operates in the state and the conception of the region of action taken by the MAB in Ceará.