LARGE HYDROELECTRIC PROJECTS AND THE TRANSFORMATION OF COUNTRYSIDE-CITY AND RURAL-URBAN RELATIONS: BETWEEN URBANITIES AND RURALITIES IN THE MUNICIPALITY OF PETROLÂNDIA - PE

• Autor(a) principal: Santos, Clélio
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Torres Aguiar Gomes, Edvânia, Martins Sobral, Maria do Carmo
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Geographia (Niterói. Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uff.br/geographia/article/view/48093

Abstract:  In Brazil, the accelerated industrialization process triggered a series of investments in infrastructure and large hydroelectric projects (LHP) were considered indispensable and technically the most appropriate to meet the demands for electricity. In the Semiárido, the humid valleys of the sub-medium São Francisco pioneered the insertion of LHP and the spread of scientific agriculture that triggered transformations in the socio-spatial organization of the municipalities. Thus, the municipality of Petrolândia - PE is inserted, located in the sub-medium São Francisco, that in 1988 had a part of its territory flooded by the waters of Itaparica reservoir. Analyzed the socio-territorial transformations triggered by the large hydroelectric projects about the countryside-city and rural-urban relations at the municipal scale of the Semiarid Region, through the study of urbanities and ruralities. It started from a critical approach, based on dialectical historical materialism, through an explanatory research of qualiquanti nature. The procedural methods historical, comparative, statistical, spatial and case study associated with bibliographic and documentary research, the application of forms, the conduction of informal interviews and photographic records made it possible to grasp the subject under study. It was found that the construction of the Itaparica Plant triggered the largest socio-spatial transformations in the municipalities under its area of influence, especially in the municipality of Petrolândia. The countryside-city relations intensified, due to the increase in the flow of people, goods and capital between these spaces, which, although distinct and even antagonistic, establish complex relationships that occur in an interdependent and complementary way, whose social, rural and urban contents, extrapolate possible territorial limits of coverage, giving rise to ruralities and urbanities in both the countryside and in the city. Keywords: Hybrid space. Urbanization. Semiarid. Hydroelectric plants. Itaparica.   Keywords: Hybrid space. Urbanization. Semiarid. Hydroelectric plants. Itaparica.