Implantação e operação da UHE Itá: memórias de incertezas e medo (décadas de 1970 a 1990)

Abstract

The present academic work “Implementation and operation of the UHE ITÁ: memories of uncertainty and fear (decades of 1970 to 1990)”, seeks to elect the aspects of human existence as priority in particular, those that represent the contradictions to which social subjects, individually or collectively, are subjected in the process of production of space. Therefore, from a study focused on a specific space-time frame, it is analyzed how these contradictions materialize in the form of fear, uncertainties, that begin to compose individual and collective memories. For this purpose we used several sources of research such as reading in newspapers of the time, as well as interviews of former residents of the city of Itá - SC. The main objective of this work is to understand the way in which the residents of the city of Itá perceived and reacted to the transformations resulting from this great hydroelectric project. At the conclusion of this analysis it is reaffirmed how the power of capital interferes in the daily life of collectivities proposing and sometimes imposing new socio-spatial arrangements. These arrangements eventually change the way of life of the people in an often irreversible way, leaving to these subjects only records in memory of places and practices excluded, stigmatized or adapted in the official reports.