DEVELOPMENT IN THE DARK

SUBJECTIVE CARTOGRAPHS AS LEGITIMATION OF POPULAR PARTICIPATION IN DAM CONSTRUCTION

Abstract

The subjective perception of historical and social facts is reached from the local reality in traditional communities in the interior of Brazil. The city of Morada Nova de Minas is presented in this work under the narrative of the residents with the purpose of announcing what was lived from the occupation of the municipal lands by the waters dammed in the construction of the Três Marias dam. The field exploited is resinified when an independent and highly productive population, back to the use of lamps. The methodology of the use of semi-structured interviews is based on the reflection of the oral knowledge of the lived experiences and the importance of interpreting the facts under the oratory of a non-vocalized and alienated people. Large works have complex arguments as in this case, multiple purposes of containment of floods, electric power production, irrigation and navigability of the river, presenting several meanings that justify and extol these project models. Contrary to government reports, as a result, there was a perceived lack of mitigation of the impacts on existing communities in education, transportation, economy, health, and independence. The discourse left out the predictions of rights, duties and public policies that would be implemented so that development, as freedom, could be fully exercised by the people who lived there. There was a lack of participation and social and environmental investment, and it was not possible to dissociate them, to confront the discourse of a national development period from progressive policies.