Os povos ribeirinhos do Rio Paraíba no município de Sumé: impactos após a transposição das águas do Rio São Francisco.

Abstract

This work sought to understand the impacts that occurred with the riverside peoples of the Paraíba River in the stretch that passes through the municipality of Sumé after the perennialization of the waters occurred with the transposition of the waters of the São Francisco River, in view of the arrival of local “development” projects announced by the government. Specifically, the research had the following objectives: to understand how land is distributed on the Paraíba River in the stretch that cuts through the municipality of Sumé-PB; study the work relations of the riverside people who live on the banks of the river; and analyze the expropriation of the peasantry (land rent) of the riverside people. As a theoretical reference, we use the historical-dialectical materialism of Marx and Engels, which explains the history of human societies through historical facts, essentially, economic facts, since “the economic structure of society is the concrete base on which a society is built. juridical and political superstructure and to which certain forms of social conscience correspond” (MARX, 1983, p. 24). To investigate the topic addressed, we carried out a bibliographical research, in addition to the official sources available in the archives of the public power and interviews carried out with the riverside peoples of the municipality of Sumé-PB. The studies carried out made it possible to understand that the transposition was not a project designed for the less favored classes of society, in this case the riverside people who live on the banks where the river flows, who, despite having immediate access to water, live threatened with being expropriated from their land by large estates and projects created by the government for local development.