The self-management teaching and performing: an ethnographic study in a cultural organization in Porto Alegre

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the forms of cultural and autonomous social movements, based on an ethnographic study in a theater group in Porto Alegre. The study emphasizes the importance of some manage actions in cultural organizations in order to maintain cultural identity and regional development, in a new form of relationship with the private and state sphere. The theoretical effort is the search of the sociological origins of the concept, from the perspectives of Marx and Proudhon, covering also a revision of contemporary authors. Within the academic community the concept takes space, in the search for other forms of organization in society and against the pressures of the neoliberalism and globalization. It is concluded that cultural organizations have potential to act again the problems of the capitalism, dealing with democratic principles, and with a horizontal and flexible structure.