“Pressão”: saques e invasões como ações diretas de flagelados no nordeste durante a seca de 1970

Abstract

For a long time, historical research has neglected the study of crowds, especially because they were considered involuntary and unorganized movements. In the historiography of droughts that occurred in the current Northeast region of Brazil, this aspect persisted for a long time, but it has been deconstructed in recent decades, with decisive contributions to the analysis of the affected population as a historical subject, with emphasis on the work of Neves (2000). In dialogue with such studies, this work aims to verify the direct actions of those affected by the 1970 drought in the Brazilian Northeast. To this end, we used the Diário de Pernambuco newspaper available in the Digital Newspaper Library of the National Library using keyword searches and exploratory research. Based on the selection of sources and in dialogue with research on the subject, at a regional and broader level, we sought to identify the actions of these populations, their objectives and demands.