A proposal for life: ethics and aesthetics in collective-solidarity forms

Abstract

The article is part of an ethnographic research carried out in Argentina within autonomy-oriented organizations. From the conceptual framework of institutional analysis and community economies, the article presents a methodology working towards the analysis of social practices, discourses and meanings in three self-managed experiences. It examines how communities view work, property and subjectivity in such experiences and concludes that: 1) their work states an ethical and aesthetic proposal linked to life sustenance and enjoyment and 2) their ways of existence question the current forms of capitalism.