Barragem de Sobradinho e a inundação da cidade de Casa Nova/BA: uma (outra) narrativa a respeito do “desenvolvimento” no sertão baiano.

Abstract

The theme of the research is the recollection of the construction of the Sobradinho Dam, in the second half of the 1970s, by the inhabitants of the city of Casa Nova, in the sertao of Bahia. Institutional films and political leaders sought to convince the local population of the need to construction of the Sobradinho Dam, which led to the flooding of the city, with the argument that the hydroelectric plant would bring development and progress to the Northeast region of the country, and as a result would increase people's material well-being and promote human rights. Casa Nova was the first of four cities in the region of the São Francisco Valley to be flooded due to the construction of Sobradinho, and the events around the flood of the city and the relocation of the inhabitants to a new territory, (re) counted several times , through interviews, is a central data in the local sertaneja identity formation. And not only, it constitutes until today a considerable part of the imaginary that fills the spaces of culture of that territory. More than four decades after the occurrence of these events, there is the prospection about the "development" model installed in that territory.