Workers in politics: tactics and strategies in the competition among political parties in Brazilian Amazon

Authors

  • MARLY SILVA Universidade Federal do Pará

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5216/sec.v12i1.6902

Keywords:

political fi eld, party competition, peasant leadership, Amazon, conservatives crisis, political renovation

Abstract

One aims at analyzing the particular case of a political dispute for offi ce in the municipal executive and legislative branches within a context of expansion of the Workers’ Party – PT, in the city of Gurupa in the countryside of the state of Para. This study focuses the effective participation of peasant leaderships in the construction of a political project and it proposes the discussion of the sociological meaning of this phenomenon. In this work, we analyze the 1992 elections. The analysis is especially based in Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of the political field. The empirical material was produced from semi-directive interviews and fi eld research in the city of Gurupa in the years of 1992 and 1993, as well as research in the archives of Gurupa and Belem. The study concludes that there is an unquestionable renovation in the fi eld of political parties and some strengthening of the local struggles against conservative politics, especially due to peasants’ presence leading the process. Despite the social meaning of this political change, the range of uncertainties concerning this phenomenon and its historical development is still wide.

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Author Biography

MARLY SILVA, Universidade Federal do Pará

Mestre em Planejamento do Desenvolvimento (Universidade Federal do Pará).
Professora da UFPA.
Belám, Brasil.

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Published

2009-08-11

How to Cite

SILVA, M. Workers in politics: tactics and strategies in the competition among political parties in Brazilian Amazon. Sociedade e Cultura, Goiânia, v. 12, n. 1, p. 79–90, 2009. DOI: 10.5216/sec.v12i1.6902. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/fcs/article/view/6902. Acesso em: 18 may. 2024.

Issue

Vol. 12 No. 1 (2009)

Section

Thematic Dossier

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