Produção forçada de um novo espaço para viver: o caso do Reassentamento Rural Coletivo km 27 – RRC, em Vitória do Xingu/Pará

Abstract

Brazil's economic growth is heavily reliant on the exploitation of natural resources, particularly in the Amazon region. However, this exploitation disrupts the socio-spatial dynamics of local communities. The increasing demand for energy, driven by the country's political discourse on development, has led to the implementation of large hydroelectric projects in the Paraense Amazon. An example of this is the construction of the Belo Monte Hydroelectric Plant (UHEBM) on the Volta Grande do Xingu, which resulted in the compulsory displacement of several families living in areas affected by the realization of this large technical object, resulting in deformations in the traditional ways of life of riverine subjects, de characterizing their origins and necessarily transforming them into urban individuals or farmers/rural workers. Those who were once recognized as riparian families, given the condition of the space in which they lived and their direct relationship with the river, are now characterized as resettled families, still under the condition of space that transfigures them into resettled individuals from the Rural Collective Resettlement. In view of these transformations in the region, the research aimed to understand the production of space in the Collective Rural Resettlement of km 27, located in Vitória do Xingu - PA (RRC), this resettlement is conceived by external agents with the purpose of providing conditions equivalent or superior to those that the families had before the construction of the hydroelectric plant. For the primary data survey, semi-structured interviews were conducted with both the resettled families and the families living in the Resettlement in the years 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022, allowing an understanding of the production of the RRC space, as well as the apprehension of the reality of the relocated families. In addition to fieldwork, official documents from Norte Energia, such as consolidated reports and others related to the object of study, were analyzed. It was verified that the relocated families obligatorily seek to establish new modes of production, new strategies, and new socio-spatial dynamics in the new space, trying to adapt to what external agents have imposed as reproductive assistance for their new living conditions.