The irrigated perimeter of Ayres de Souza: notes and discussions

Abstract

Aiming to reveal the irrigated perimeter Ayres de Souza, pointing out aspects of its trajectory and its daily life, is this article. This is also reflected on how the settlers selected in the 1970s by the DNOCS to occupy the irrigated perimeter Ayres de Souza, organized themselves in the project and established complex relationships by interacting with each other; with the State; with the market; with the surrounding communities, and especially with the lands that make up the Ayres de Souza, with which they have developed feelings of belonging throughout their life in them, giving to the project characters of articulation and cohesion that, in turn, the characterized and differed from the other thirteen irrigated perimeters implanted in the northeastern semi-arid region, which in the course of time, like Ayres de Souza, underwent significant changes resulting from the political reorientation drawn up by the Brazilian capitalist state in the 1990s and that produced different contexts in these projects, depending on how they adapted to the new demands imposed by the change of political bias of the irrigated perimeters.