As relações de poder ditas"Coronelísticas" no final do século XIX e início do século XX no Estado da Paraíba.

Abstract

Throughout Brazilian History, we can find analytical variations related to the concept of coronelismo, including the origin, top and decline of political practices considered "coronelisticas", investigated by several authors. Such variations end up attributing characteristics that associate the concept of coronelismo to current political practices, which allows comparisons between them. In these discourses, Brazilian Northeast is the space where practices considered "coronelisticas" will establish and maintain its perpetuation; it happens because this region was instituted under backwardness. Paraiba fits in this context, so this paper intends to problematize power relations considered "coronelisticas" of the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century in this State; its goal is verifying, through the analysis of discourses, the way that reference to practices which are "coronelisticas" happenned in the State of Paraiba during this period, which is considered mostly as a moment of institution and consolidation of such power relations.