The creation of social spaces as a form of fighting women artisans of Alagoas: the experience of the solidary economy

Abstract

This article seeks to specify how the solidarity economy has been building new spaces for the social reproduction of workers in Brazil, essentially in the state of Alagoas, showing as a possibility the overcoming of a purely utilitarian logic that guides the current society. This trajectory, although contradictory and difficult to become hegemonic, can support processes that lead to a social transformation. Discussing this perspective and highlighting the contribution of solidarity economy implies giving it due space, highlighting its importance as a social experiment by establishing alternative practices and real possibilities of differentiated organization at a time when, once again, capitalism goes through an intense crisis. The methodology used in this work has as its starting point the real and contradictory conditions of the groups themselves. Thus, the methodology can be interpreted in the conception of action research, in which the researcher makes clear the relevance of practice and intervention in the research process. Throughout their constitution, social organizations have introduced pedagogical instruments of management, strategies and materials that can indicate elements of a new space that opposes and puts the capital space as a way of reproducing these populations.