Política e comunidade: relações entre líderes comunitários e candidatos/políticos em Campina Grande-PB.

Abstract

This research aims to understand how the relationship between community leaders in the suburbs of Campina Grande - PB and politicians is characterized. We intend to have a glance over representative leaders of associative organizations who experience both supporting political groups becoming the main characters of Election Campaign activities within the neighborhood and demonstrating their support in their everyday representative organizations. We intent, thus to understand how the access network is built and enabled as well as if this relationship causes reconfigurations in ways of politics nowadays. The research was carried out in the neighborhoods of Ferraz and Belo Monte, Campina Grande - PB, by using qualitative methodologies, such as ethnography through interviews and participant research, we could conclude that only through these methods we would be able to interpret the "politics backstage”.