We study on the production of identities in the context of self-managed, aiming to analyze the correlations between the insertion in this context and the building of the citizen identity. The survey was conducted with members of a cooperative recycling in Joinville. Semi-structured interviews about the life history of the participants were performed, discussing concepts such as citizenship, politics, participation and cooperative. From the categorization of speeches we sought to raise evidence of the influence of inclusion in the cooperative on the construction of citizenship as a constituent of the identity of members. It was observed that the inclusion in the cooperative promoted the participation in the spaces of political struggle, deepening the bond with the community. However, this fight was significant only when the cooperative's interests were at stake. We believed that this occurs because the cooperative is vested with affection for the members, becoming part of their identities.
Self-management; citizenship; identity; solidarity economy