PERNAMBUCO À ESQUERDA? A FORÇA POLÍTICA DAS FAMÍLIAS ARRAES-CAMPOS NA ESFERA ESTADUAL

This article analyzes, from a historical and sociological view, the importance and the political strength of the Arraes and Campos families in the state of Pernambuco. We have worked with this issue in a perspective that endeavors to emphasize the trajectories, alliances, practices, representations, ambiguities and ideological affinities inherent the construction of a family-based political hegemony. Arraes and Campos are two families that, in most of their histories symbolically, are understood as one unit body whose praxis has been guided by the ideological inclination to the left or center-left. In this article, we attempt to describe and interpret some elements that made these families become singulars actors in the state and national political scene. Concerning the theoretical and methodological aspects, the text is based on the interdisciplinary contributions of the New Political History, whose focus seeks to grasp the contradictions and ambiguities present in the trajectories, practices, and representations of social subjects on a local, regional and national scale.