scholarly journals EDUCAÇÃO CIENTÍFICA EM AÇÃO: a cartografia de controvérsias como prática de cidadania técnico-científica

2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
pp. 133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elisa Sampaio de Faria ◽  
Francisco Ângelo Coutinho
Keyword(s):  
Science Education ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Scientific Literacy ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Educación Científica

A Educação em Ciências e os documentos oficiais que regulamentam a educação no Brasil relacionam fortemente a aquisição de conhecimentos científicos e a cidadania técnico-científica. Com o objetivo de instigar o debate sobre a educação científica para a cidadania, investigamos as conexões entre a participação cidadã e o conhecimento científico, na controvérsia sobre a instalação do Projeto Apolo na Serra do Gandarela, em Minas Gerais, Brasil. Tal polêmica mobiliza atores diversos: leigos, pesquisadores, políticos, empresas, recursos naturais, movimentos populares, entre outros. Diante da heterogeneidade dos participantes na disputa, fez-se necessário reunir ferramentas teóricas e analíticas que compartilhassem da perspectiva da ecologia política. O conjunto de ferramentas concebido para esse trabalho foi fortemente fundamentado pela Teoria Ator-Rede (ANT). A ANT foi aliada à noção de cosmos e à proposta cosmopolítica, com grande contribuição do conjunto de ferramentas fornecido pela cartografia de controvérsias. Os resultados permitem concluir que a educação científica para a cidadania deveria investir na participação dos estudantes em questões técnico-científicas de interesse público e em práticas que abram espaços para as manifestações das multinaturezas dos objetos técnico-científicos.Palavras-chave: Alfabetização científica. Cidadania. Teoria Ator-Rede. Cartografia de controvérsias. Multinaturalismo.  SCIENCE EDUCACION IN ACTION: the controversy mapping as a practice of technical-scientific citizenshipAbstract: In recent years the Science Education is strongly related the acquisition of scientific knowledge as aprerequisite for technical-scientific citizenship. Aiming to provoke the debate about science teaching for citizenship,we investigate the connections between citizen participation and scientific knowledge in the controversy regardingthe installation of the Apolo Project in Sierra Gandarela, Minas Gerais, Brazil. This controversy includes severalactors, as: lay people, researchers, politicians, businessmen, natural resources, popular movements, etc. The heterogeneityof the participants in the dispute created the need for bringing together theoretical and analytical toolsthat share the perspective of political ecology. Therefore, the set of tools designed for this research was stronglyfounded by Actor-Network Theory (ANT). ANT was combined with the notion of cosmos and cosmopolitics proposedby Stengers and also with the mapping of controversy. The results show that science education for citizenship shouldfocus on student participation in technic-scientific issues of public interest, and on practices that make room for themanifestations of the nature of technical and scientific objects.Keywords: Scientific literacy. Citizenship. Actor-Network Theory. Controversy mapping. Multinaturalism.EDUCACIÓN CIENTÍFICA EN ACCIÓN: el mapeo de controversias como práctica de ciudadanía técnica y científicaResumen: La Educación en Ciencias y los documentos oficiales que reglamentan la educación en el Brasil relacionan fuertemente la adquisición de los conocimientos científicos y la ciudadanía técnica y científica. Con el objetivo de provocar el debate sobre la educación científica para la ciudadanía, se investiga las conexiones entre la participación ciudadana y el conocimiento científico, en la controversia sobre la instalación del Proyecto Apolo en Sierra Gandarela en Minas Gerais, Brasil. Tal controversia moviliza actores diferentes: laicos, investigadores, políticos, empresas,  recursos naturales, movimientos populares, entre otros. A frente la heterogeneidad de los participantes en la disputa, fue necesario reunir herramientas teóricas y analíticas que comparten la perspectiva de la ecología política. El conjunto de herramientas diseñadas para esta investigación fue basada fuertemente en Teoría del Actor-Red (ANT). La ANT se combinó con la idea de cosmos y la propuesta cosmopolítica, con gran contribución del conjunto de  herramientas proporcionado por la cartografía de controversias. Los resultados muestran que la educación científica para la ciudadanía debería invertir en la participación de los estudiantes en cuestiones técnicas y científicas de interés público y en las prácticas que se pueden abrir espacios para las manifestaciones de multinaturalezas de objetos técnicos-científicos. Palabras clave: Alfabetización científica. Ciudadanía. Teoría Actor-Red. Mapeo de controversias. Multinaturalismo.

From coal to cool: Reordering nature in post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-163
Author(s):  
Anne Gry Sturød
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Coal Mining ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Tourism Destination ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Empirical Material ◽  
Rule Out

The article studies the transformation of a Kyrgyz coal-mining village into a tourism destination. By combining political ecology research approaches with concepts borrowed from Actor Network Theory (ANT), I attempt to show how nature-based tourism development contributes to a reordering of nature in certain ways rather than others. Supported by my empirical material, I suggest that this reordering of nature makes certain realities emerge, while others submerge. However, while some orderings of natures appear to be representing reality, it does not necessarily rule out multiple understandings of how nature “ought to look” or be used.

scholarly journals The interface between political ecology and actor-network theories: exploring the reality of waste

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Swatiprava Rath ◽  
Pranaya swain
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Consumption Pattern ◽  
The Political ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Human Environment ◽  
Actor Network

<p>Human-environment relationship is a prominent discourse in many academic disciplines. Initial studies in social sciences viewed nature being independent of society but gradually researchers proved that both are related and dependent upon each other. Current studies confirm the association between humans and the environment which changes with time and space. Waste is part of the human environment and is ubiquitous. Climate change, environmental pollution, and vulnerabilities associated with it have been major concerns for policymakers, activists, and academicians across the globe over the past couple of decades. The report of International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) and United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in 2006 delineated waste management as an important part of urban infrastructure having close relation to issues of urban lifestyle, resource consumption pattern, income level, jobs, socio-economic and cultural factors. According to World Bank estimation in 2018, waste generation will increase from 2.01 billion tones in 2016 to 3.40 billion tones in 2050. However, despite its significance in the academic world, the waste remains under-theorized. The meaning and value of waste vary from person to person and also from culture to culture. Rapid urbanization and globalization have led to the social, economic and political crisis with an increased amount of waste. The multidimensional nature of waste creates the need for interpreting it in a distinct way. With the help of theoretical pluralism, this paper aims at explaining the concept of waste through the theoretical lens of political ecology and actor-network theory. The political ecology perspective aims at explaining the environmental issues by analyzing the political-economical causes and provides the alternative for solving the issue. The actor-network theory explains the environmental issues by studying the association among actors at various scales with a special focus on the power interest of the actors as the cause of such association. These two approaches can be integrated based on the pragmatic approach and can help in understanding the complex reality of waste. The paper views that societal problems like waste can be studied with the use of both these theories with a firm hold on the context as they tend to transcend the dualism between nature and society. </p>

scholarly journals Editorial: Natur, Gesellschaft, Materialität: aktuelle Herausforderungen der Politischen Ökologie

2016 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 221-227 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sören Becker ◽  
Antje Otto
Keyword(s):  
Political Ecology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Production Of Space ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Theoretical Approaches ◽  
Dialectical Perspective ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract. This editorial introduces different theoretical strands in political ecology both in English and German speaking contexts. Comparing Marxist with more relational and "new materialist" approaches, it is argued that the various theoretical approaches chosen induce different ways of how the relationship between society and nature, between material and culture is conceptualized. The dialectical perspective derived from Marxism is thereby contrasted with the more emergent, and relativist understandings of actor network theory and assemblage thinking. Besides, the six single contributions in this Special Issue are introduced and five areas for further research are laid out: (1) the multiplicity of materiality, (2) the opposition between dialectic and relativist thinking, (3) the tension between elements and entire socio-material configurations, (4) materiality in the production of space and (5) issues of materiality and power.

scholarly journals Ekologia polityczna powietrza: o uwidzialnianiu miejskiego ryzyka

2016 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-53
Author(s):  
Iwona Bojadżijewa
Keyword(s):  
Air Pollution ◽  
Air Quality ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Urban Risk

In this text the author attempts to reconstruct contemporary disputes about air quality in Poland using the language of actor-network theory (ANT). The purpose is to show the process of making urban risk visible—in this instance, the risk of polluted air—through the development of hybrid alliances and the formulation of translations aimed at the final elimination of air pollution. The article consists of three parts and a theoretical introduction in which the author discusses the basic tools and concepts of ANT, as well as Latour’s programme of political ecology. In the first part, the author sketches the map of actors and actants involved in air-pollution discussions. Then she examines the role of things—material objects—in air pollution conflicts, with special emphasis on the agency of these non-human actants. Finally, she focuses on alternative translations, which are attempts to negotiate smog’s place in the hierarchy of the collective.

Der große Leviathan und die Akteur-Netzwerk-Welten

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
International Relations ◽  
Political Ecology ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Thomas Hobbes ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
The State ◽  
Bruno Latour ◽  
Actor Network ◽  
Interdisciplinary Work ◽  
Core Questions

Is Bruno Latour a ‘state thinker’? His intensive examination of Thomas Hobbes’ Leviathan certainly forms an important linchpin of and a link to understanding his wide-ranging and interdisciplinary work. Asking about Latour’s understanding of the state proves to be a promising approach to addressing core questions in actor-network theory, to Latour’s time-diagnostic critique of modernity and to his search for the prospects of future political collectivity. The contributions collected here present various approaches to Bruno Latour’s work on problems of statehood and political collectivity, on his analysis of law, on his concept of power and on his political ecology, as well as on how his thinking connects to matters of international relations and the theory of publics. With contributions by Lorina Buhr, Anne Dölemeyer, Filipe dos Reis, Graham Harman, Arjen Kleinherenbrink, Leander Scholz, Hagen Schölzel, Jan Christoph Suntrup, Sjoerd van Tuinen und Daniel Witte.

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