WATER: A LIQUID TERRITORY IN DISPUTE IN THE CERRADO

Abstract

Text of abstract in source Calibri and size 10 pt. The abstract can be English, French or Spanish. This article aims to discuss the importance of water for the socioenvironmental resistance of peasants in the Cerrado of Goiás and the pressure represented by the formation of Liquid Territories in Goiás. For peasants and traditional communities, water is life and a guarantee of staying in the place, caused by a “symbiosis” with the environment. For agribusiness, water is just an available and abundant resource that should be used as a product. But the more the resource (product) runs out, the greater the occurrence of conflicts due to access to water. Based on the theoretical concept of Environmental Geography, the construction of a dialectical narrative is based, that the formation of liquid territories, arising from the extreme capitalization of the use of water, contrasts with the climatic conditions of the Cerrado and the maintenance of life in this territory. Thus, the article is divided into three fundamental topics: the depletion of water resources in the Cerrado; the formation of liquid territories with the expansion of central pivots and dams of Small Hydroelectric Plants and, finally, the need for water for the reproduction of cerradeiros peoples, as well as the importance of the latter for the conservation of the Cerrado.