O fenomêno da seca na perspectiva dos moradores de Ipaumirim - CE: um estudo de caso.

Abstract

The drought is inculcated in the life of the population that inhabits the semi-arid northeast of Brazil, acting actively or because of its impact on the memory of the person who experienced it. THE The purpose of this paper is to understand the different perceptions that residents have about the drought phenomenon in the city of Ipaumirim-CE. To achieve this objective, the following phenomenological methods and discourse analysis, as well as bibliographic techniques for substantiate; guided interview, case study and data tabulation. The drought phenomenon is very active, where there were 32 (thirty two) events with an average of three years of duration. In this paper, the interviewees present specificities in their speech the past droughts and homogeneity in relation to the current ones, being explained by culture that each one has and the scenario that each one has experienced in the past and present. This The result was that residents' perceptions of droughts according to the paradigm of each management of the public system, in which the phenomena of past are considered more impactful than the current ones, ie the glimpse with the social programs and projects created from the late 1990s onwards make “historians of the time ”see this way.