ABSTRACT
This article investigates small traders in the outskirts of southern São Paulo in a time of increasing diffusion of entrepreneurship, making use of the concept of “moral economy”. The text employs an ethnographic approach to the theoretical debate about the historical transformations that have occurred in urban peripheries in recent. On the one hand, they are relationships that express sociability under “life under siege” or to “fortified enclaves”; on the other hand, to monetization in these territories. So that this “rescue” of the community by the utopia of autonomy is reborn degenerated by modified structural conditions.
KEYWORDS
Urban peripheries; entrepreneurship; community