New actors on the scene and the reconfiguration of social conflicts and of the debate of development in Brazil and in the Amazon: the emergence of the Barrage Affcted Movement

Abstract

This text is part of a master's dissertation research already completed, through the Program of Graduate Studies in Education of the Federal University of Paraíba (PPGE-UFPB). This text comes to analyzing the Barrage Affected Movement (MAB) as a new social actor in the Brazilian public scene, focusing in particular on their experience in the Amazon. Thus, we intend to identify to what extent and under what perspective this movement contributes to sign up and boost the reconfiguration of new social conflicts in socio-territorial dynamics of this country and of Amazonia and cause inflections in the debate around the issue of development. Therefore, this study was a qualitative approach involving documentary and field research. The locus of the research was the municipality of Tucuruí, in the State of Pará, which was built Tucuruí Hydroelectric Plant (UHT), one of the major projects of the model and of the conservative developmenistt policy from the military regime (1964-1985).