A construção de hidrelétricas e os efeitos em comunidades tradicionais: algumas reflexões

Abstract

This paper is the concluding monograph of the Social Work course and its main objective was to analyze and understand the conflicts and effects of the construction of hydroelectric plants in traditional peasant and indigenous communities in Tocantins. This is a qualitative, bibliographic research that prioritized the study of works that address the construction of hydroelectric plants on the Tocantins River and that caused damage to indigenous and peasant populations, such as the Lajeado and Estreito plants. The implementation of large projects for electric power generation is based on a discourse of modernization and regional development, bringing inside the idea that everyone will benefit from this type of enterprise. The Brazilian state, articulated with the interests of the dominant groups that represent the internal and external elites, has systematically defended and opted for a development model that does not have human life with an end. Our readings and the experience of living with this process allow us to infer that the Lajeado HPP caused permanent damage to the Akwe-Xerente people, causing significant changes in their way of life and that the Palmatuba peasant community with a history over 70 years old and existing in Babaerland, it was destroyed by the Estreito HPP without the possibility of reconstituting itself as a community.