Community practices organizing and regulating the use and the settings of the commons are permeated by specific connections to land. Also, these practices are informed by ways of relating to nature which may constitute ways of resisting to the manner capital is organized and set up as well to the mercantilized relations that constitutes it. Frequently, such relations limit traditional communities actions amidst their self governance processes. We believe these limitations are enabled on the juridical, the physical (land) and the political, building upon in what we will call as enclosures. Such enclosures operate by destructuring complex social organizations and complex political dynamics of production and reproduction which shape community relations in practice - the very actions we consider as the Commons, as according to Dardot and Laval (2016). In order to observe the enclousre of the commons, this research will focus on the elaboration process of the Bailique Community Protocol, between 2016 and 2017. Based on it, we argue that enclosures may be happening over some communities, participants of the process carried on at the Bailique Archipelago, while they were builiding the community protocol to protect their knowledge, their territory so much so that to contribute with local development. The analysis of the changes provoked on the social organization and on the relation with the land departing from the community protocol helps us in understanding how the neoliberal rationality can limit the scope and the efficacy of juridical protections of communities as well as the physical spaces necessary for their social reproduction. This movement weaken communities' agency, opening space for the advancement of the mercantilization of nature. We approach this debate inspired by the reflections on the rationality of the commons and based on fieldwork lying on the activist research method that invokes the research should be politically aligned to the problems faced and pointed out as important by the very groups we work with.
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