This dissertation presents the results of the interdisciplinary research that investigated the ways
of life, memories, narratives, and resistance of the men and women of the Collective Urban
Resettlement (RUC) impacted and invisibilized in the deterritorialization process in
Babaçulândia (TO) during the formation of the lake of the Hydroelectric Power Plant (HPP) of
Estreito. In this way, our investigation was focused on the reports of memories and practices of
the residents of the flooded streets, men and women in need of re-signifying their histories; who
reconstructed their ways of living, inside the resettlement, from the re-elaboration of their
reminiscences with the purpose of resisting the onslaught of the large enterprises. The oral
history, methodological path used in listening to the reports, supported by the technique of life
stories, evoked feelings, recognitions and revealed evidence, kept under the memories of the
experiences of the riverside population. Under the territorial view of the body, creator of
relations and culture, we unravel the tangle of interpretations through the dialogue with the
narrators. These, help in the discussion, analysis and problematization of the impacts and
changes generated in the process of building new ways of life, without the proximity of the
river, and new strategies to resist to maintain their identities in the new territory.
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