STUDIES OF THE COMMON IN BRAZIL: INITIAL CONTRIBUTIONS

Annotated Bibliographic Survey

Abstract

This bibliographical survey, accompanied by brief commentaries, arose from the restlessness felt with the production and collective debate of the text The commons, the past and the future: an essay on the historiographical and political relevance of E. P. Thompson. Such restlessness was motivated by the limited bibliography on the common that we found in historiography. Driven by this absence, we endeavored to research and map how this production has been carried out in Brazil in various areas of knowledge, as well as to identify the main international productions translated into Portuguese. The following survey does not intend to be an exhaustive and complete list on the subject, but rather an introductory sketch that may assist in the elaboration of new research focused on the theme. Our concern in organizing the productions on the common by area of knowledge may, in part, harm the fundamentally transdisciplinary character of the object; however, not to do so would be, in our view, of great naivety in the face of knowledge as entrenched and segregated as that of the Brazilian intellectual milieu. Finally, it is important to emphasize that we have always chosen to highlight the most recent edition of the listed works.