Rede Rizoma:

Coletivo de produtores de pequena escala e de Grupos de Consumo Responsável da Região Sul do Rio Grande do Sul

Abstract

The dehumanizing capitalist mode of production, with its actions and contradictions, forces workers to face it by constructing humanizing ways of developing production, commercialization and consumption. Such forms are characterized as social movements against hegemonic, to face this system. Our work aims to understand this social process and contribute to strengthen the collectives. Thus, the Rizoma Network emerges, a collective composed of Responsible Consumption Groups (RCG) and small-scale producers who follow the logic of the Solidarity Popular Economy (SPE), located in the Southern Region of Rio Grande do Sul. This article seeks to present the Rizoma Network as a concrete and hegemonic experience. The methodology used was a literature, documentary and academic work review, as well as reports of participant observation. The results found are that the practice of those involved in the Rizoma Network is a collective of collectives that seeks another form of production, commercialization and consumption, and thus meet the emancipation and transformation of the subjects.