A SOCIO-ENVIRONMENTAL STUDY OF PEOPLE AFFECTED BY THE DAM OF HAT OF GRAPES
Memory; Identity; Dores do Paraibuna; Oralities; Oral history.
This research seeks to address the relationship between memory and identity in
populations that go through the process of transferring their communities to other
locations motivated by the construction of dams, hydroelectric plants, etc. To this end,
the case of the district of Dores do Paraibuna, belonging to Santos Dumont (MG),
flooded in the early 1990s to make way for the expansion of the Chapéu D'Uvas dam,
will be addressed. The main focus will be to approach the relationship established
between the population and the memory it has of the place that was compulsorily left
behind. Based on this problematic, this research raises the initial hypothesis of the
existence of a gap in the collective memory of this group and, as a possible way to fill
this gap, it proposes to collect and value oral narratives from the remaining residents of
the old settlement, seeking to understand the losses in the symbolic field, as well as to
act as a documental and historical record for a community that still does not have one.