Memória do excesso: vivência do deslocamento compulsório pela Hidrelétrica de Tucuruí

Abstract

In this article we describe the mnemonic narratives about the compulsory displacement suffered by people affected by the implementation of the Tucuruí Hydroelectric Power Plant in the Tocantins River (Pará). Our objective is to understand the meanings attributed to temporalities locally denominated Breu Velho and Novo Breu through ethnographic methodology with execution of participant observation and semistructured interviews and informal conversations with people who have lived the compulsory displacement. Functioning as a reference of the absence of the way of life in the places flooded by the filling of the artificial lake of the plant, Breu Velho denominates the restatement of a demand to inhabit that the Novo Breu does not consecrate due to the excess of the event, that broke the expectations and disabled the dynamics social conditions that conferred security on the environment by the being-in-the-world conformation neglected by the inversion that the Western ontology makes of the person.