O processo de implantação da Termelétrica do Itaqui, São Luís/MA e sua influência na dinâmica territorial da comunidade Vila Nova Canaã, Paço do Lumiar

Abstract

This study deals with the installation process of the Itaqui Thermoelectric Power Plant and its implications on the territorial dynamics of the residents of the old Vila Madureira, in the municipality of São Luís – MA, to Vila Nova Canaã, in the municipality of Paço do Lumiar – MA. Territorial management demonstrates that the State is the agent that has dominion in the relations of power, assuming strategic positions and executing interests of the dominant agents. From this perspective, the political actions that are demanded by a global and / or national scale present their repercussions on the smaller scales, being precisely in this context that the Brazilian Legal Amazon and the capital of Maranhão, São Luís (as a member of this), relative proximity to areas suitable for the location of extensive port facilities, suffers such reflexes, being considered the target to receive large projects, providing commercial logistics to serve the external market. This research is based on the method of dialectical historical materialism, in which the analysis procedures approach qualitatively the data investigated, having as reference historical-conceptual bases relative to the territory, State and development, categories of analysis used, considering the reality of Maranhão and the particularities of the Vila Nova Canaã community, in the municipality of Paço do Lumiar. It points out that there is a close conflict relationship in this new form of space appropriation, where the company was only interested in a multiplying capital territory, without having to worry about the socio-environmental vulnerabilities of this process.