A genealogia do poder patoense: a formação de uma elite política local e o revezamento do exercício do poder em Patos-PB.

Abstract

His paper aims to historicize oligarchic political practices in the municipality of Patos-PB, as well as to analyze the formation and consolidation of a family-based political elite. In this sense, it problematizes how the relay movement occurred between the families that remained in the exercise of power in this space, through the correlations of forces that make up the power game established by these families within the political field of Patos-PB. It seeks to apprehend the formation of this elitist / familist politics, its permanences / changes in the exercise of the local political power, in the period in which there is a kind of “chair dance” among the main families of the political world of Patos-PB, who took turns historically in the exercise of power in the municipality. The research will take place through the use of bibliographic sources and thematic interviews. From the theoretical point of view, we will establish a direct dialogue between the sources worked here with some academic productions, relevant to this work, about power relations; the theories of elites and oligarchic politics; which directly determine the formation of the political power game in the municipality, through Michel Foucault's analytical perspective on the power device and discourse analysis.