Entre o mar e o rio : as percepções dos ex-moradores da comunidade do Cabeço acerca dos processos de mobilidade territorial coletiva da ilha fluviomarinha em Brejo Grande – Sergipe

Abstract

Riverside and island communities arouse people´s curiosity and have long attracted researchers, who are drawn to them by natural beauty, a desire for peace, or an interest in learning about social activities that differ from those seen in continental societies. The way of life of those who rely on the adventure of facing seas and rivers to provide for their families, combined with the peculiar daily life of these distant, sometimes isolated, villages is particularly noteworthy for their uniqueness. These villages, in turn, are territorialities built over a long period of coexistence between them, which appears to be more evident when we refer to island communities, as the geographic isolation of these settlements apparently increases the feeling of communion among the natives, raising the question of whether this scenario can be identified in the remnants of the former village Cabeço. Thus, this dissertation is the result obtained from fieldwork, documental investigation, and bibliographic research conducted between 2019 and 2021, with the goal of analyzing the perceptions, of former residents of the former village Cabeço, about the direct impact caused to the former community established on the island, which was located for more than a century on the right side of the mouth of São Francisco River (municipality of Brejo Grande - Sergipe) and which, after a significant decrease in the flow at its mouth, resulted in the advance of coastal maritime water, causing the flooding of the entire physical insular space, forcing residents of that region to take obligatory collective mobility action. By using participant observation as an approach strategy, added to the capture of oralities in interviews, it was possible to develop an ethnographic study of the narratives of former residents, through the numerous reports recorded in the researched field, of a community that was shaken by bad weather and is still affected by its developments, by changing its social dynamics and potentializing other ways of relating to the community´s old spaces.