Espaço e Territorialidade: o Bairro Baixada e a sua intrínseca relação com as cheias do Rio Mearim na cidade de Trizidela do Vale – MA

Abstract

The master's thesis in question addresses the transformations in Bairro Baixada and the floods of the Megrim River in the urbanized area of Tresidela do Vale, a municipality located in the state of Maranhão. Among the factors discussed, the city's emancipation process, the creation of neighborhoods, with a special focus on Bairro Baixada, social relations and problems arising from the lack of infrastructure during the megrim River floods stand out. The intrinsic relationship between the residents of Bairro Baixada and the choice of their location of residence is also analyzed. Furthermore, the study investigates the urbanization process of the territory of Tresidela do Vale, its peculiars characteristics and the transformations observed after the emancipation of the city. To this end, open interviews were carried out with the population in the three streets that make up the neighborhood, Rua Marmorana, Rua São Joaquim and Rua Tamarindo, and also based on research carried out in the literature since the beginning of the master's degree in the Postgraduate Program in Cartography Social and Politics of the Amazon - PPGCSPA of the State University of Maranhão - UEMA, we found several authors who describe Anthropology as a science capable of understanding human activities and the occupations of spaces that human beings seek to inhabit, such as Bourdieu, Foucault, Malinowski, Laraia, among others. These authors supported the field research, outlined the steps to be followed and contributed to the construction of this dissertation, with the aim of understanding aspects of sociocultural and environmental transformation in the urban and physical context