Voices from Within and Outside the South: Defying STS Epistemologies, Boundaries, and Theories
Autores: Raoni Rajão, Ricardo B. Duque, Rahul De’
Resumo: The global South, that is, the region outside the Western Europe, North America, and the developed nations of Oceania and Asia, has been neglected by social scientists studying science, technology and society (STS) issues. Since the end of the 1990s, however, a growing body of work has critically evaluated the contradictory role of Nothern styles of science and technology… leia mais
Science, Technology & Human
Autores: Raoni Rajão, Ricardo B Duque
Resumo: This article examines the foundation myths of Brazil in the last two centuries, paying particular attention to the relationship between these myths and governmental attitudes toward the hybridity of Northern and Southern ethnic and technoscientific entities. Based upon this examination, the article argues that it is important to consider both the wider temporal frames and the shifts and sedimentations that have formed current… leia mais
Cracking Brazil’s forest code
Autores: Britaldo Soares-Filho, Raoni Rajão, Marcia Macedo, Arnaldo Carneiro, William Costa, Michael Coe, Hermann Rodrigues, Ane Alencar
Resumo: Roughly 53% of Brazil’s native vegetation occurs on private properties. Native forests and savannahs on these lands store 105±21 GtCO 2 e (billion tons of CO 2 equivalents) and play a vital role in maintaining a broad range of ecosystem services (1). Sound management of these private landscapes is critical if global efforts to mitigate climate change are to succeed. Recent approval of controversial… leia mais
Entre anti-fatos, fatos e não-fatos: a semiótica material da história da Palaeolama (camelidae) Sul Americana
Autores: Camilla Pires Marcolino, Raoni Rajão
Resumo: O presente artigo se inspira na semiótica material para compreender como ocorre a construção da história natural a partir do estabelecimento de fatos científicos no campo da paleontologia. Para isso são revisitados e re-significados as experiências obtidas pela primeira autora desse artigo durante os dois anos que atuou como pesquisadora em quatro Museus de Ciências Naturais da América do Sul. Em particular… leia mais
Blame games in the Amazon: environmental crises and the emergence of a transparency regime in Brazil
Autores: Raoni Rajão, Yola Georgiadou
Resumo: In 1992, the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development recognized in its tenth principle the right of “each individual [for] appropriate access to information concerning the environment that is held by public authorities.” 1 Since then, numerous policy papers by the United Nations, donor countries, and NGOs have called for increased transparency and accountability… leia mais
Between Purity and Hybridity: Technoscientific and Ethnic Myths of Brazil
Autores: Raoni Rajão, Ricardo B Duque
Resumo: This article examines the foundation myths of Brazil in the last two centuries, paying particular attention to the relationship between these myths and governmental attitudes toward the hybridity of Northern and Southern ethnic and technoscientific entities. Based upon this examination, the article argues that it is important to consider both the wider temporal frames and the shifts and… leia mais
Introduction: Voices from within and Outside the South—Defying STS Epistemologies, Boundaries, and Theories
Autores: Raoni Rajão, Ricardo B Duque, Rahul De’
Resumo: The global South, that is, the region outside the Western Europe, North America, and the developed nations of Oceana and Asia, has been neglected by social scientists studying science, technology, and society (STS) issues. Since the end of the 1990s, however, a growing body of work has critically evaluated the contradictory role of Northern styles of science and technology for development, including the cultural… leia mais