Water, energy and land for life

the struggle of those affected by dams and the problem of deterritorialization

Abstract

The research investigates the struggle of those affected by dams in Brazil, using the deductive approach method, and begins with a brief contextualization of the Movement of People Affected by Dams in Brazil, highlighting its demanding, political, popular and environmental purposes, its main objectives, historical cycles, reconfigurations of the struggle over time. In addition to analyzing the problems in defining who are those affected by dams and the consequences of this conceptual problem on the social justice of those whose rights are affected by the energy sector, as well as the impacts of deterritorialization on the lives of those affected by dams, which affect their health mental, physical, in addition to causing social and cultural problems, loss of affective and even historical memories, which cannot be valued economically. Observe the great impacts that the disasters of Mariana and Brumadinho brought to the population, which still suffers, without effective results, all due to the prevalence of economic interests over others. It also reflects the insufficiency of existing public policies aimed at those affected by dams, taking into account the transformations suffered over time, without taking into account the socio-cultural and economic particularities of those affected by dams in our country.