THE RIGHT THAT IS PRODUCED IN COMMON: “co-habitation rules” in the experiences of the solidarity canteens project of the UEFS Popular and Solidarity Economy Initiative Incubator

Abstract

In the “Solidarity Canteens”, a project of the Incubator of Popular and Solidarity Economy (Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana, State of Bahia, Brazil), groups of workers experience the production and commercialization of food in canteens of the University, transformed into pedagogical spaces of that extension and research program. The aim of this paper is to present the experience of monitoring the self-management lawmaking process of collective work, that involves reflection on the rules produced by the workers, its perception as a non-state legal phenomenon and its importance for the construction of the common from the associated work. Based on the participant research principles, the proposal, although not without theoretical reflections on the characterization of such normative phenomenon as juridical, focuses mainly on the concern to identify, from the praxis, the characteristics and the senses that assume, in the self-managed collective work, the spontaneous rules produced by the coexistence, as well as the role they can play in the challenging popular struggles for counter-hegemonic forms of life reproduction.