Memórias do sítio Cachoeira de Aurora-CE: tradições e histórias submersas pelas águas de um projeto político (1989-2000).

Abstract

This dissertation aims to analyze how features develop in the municipality of Aurora with the construction of the water reservoir in the community of the Cachoeira countryside. The development of the work represented an integration in the progress route based on the political program then Governor Tasso Jereissati, the "way of the waters", a symbol of modernization of the State. However, a construction caused damage to the lives of the residents of the Cachoeira community and nearby places, representing a loss of symbolic space. The objective of this work is to understand how the construction of a reservoir in Cachoeira, a symbol of the modernity of the Jereissati government in the municipality of Aurora, impact the daily lives of inhabitants of the communities of the local Cachoeira, Poço de Couro, Jatobá and Currais Novos. In this perspective, we seek to analyze how the “changeist” government, represented by Jereissati, gave rise to the Ceará political scenario and the development of the Water Resources policy, as well as analyzed as narratives about the construction process of the work, about the power of work state and forms of resistance organized by the residents, and finally understand the space of the Cachoeira weir as the place of longing for the remnants, to know the places reached from memory. Thus, use as a method or use of oral history, in addition to the analysis of printed documents, newspaper journals, audiovisual sources, which contributed to the development of this research. In the theoretical perspective, we used authors to understand the socio-cultural aspect of the narrative, Thompson (1998), Certeau (2012), Scott (2002) contributed to the discussion, as Santos (2014) and Haesbaert (2003), in the use of geographic space and their representations. The construction of the Cachoeira weir completely changed the local scene, a work provided or the supply of water to the urban area of the municipality, however, two decades after the inauguration of the reservoir or the affected residents struggle for better living conditions, as before Waterfall had provided.