This article aims to provide an overview of the configuration of power and empowerment in two rural communities with a productive forestry vocation, located in the Amazon area in the north of the country. The study, with a qualitative approach, allowed lo

Abstract

This article aims to provide an overview of the configuration of power and empowerment in two rural communities with a productive forestry vocation, located in the Amazon area in the north of the country. The study, with a qualitative approach, allowed local socio-economic actors to reflect on political issues related to the progress of peasant organizations and the exercise of power that makes their sustainable functioning possible. The authors described the characteristics of local empowerment in the context of conflictive relationships and tried to explain it by going to constructs such as beliefs, values, customs and customs of their own, within the framework of social alliances impregnated with pre-Kendalism and political patronage.