The concept of controversy in perspective

• Grant number: 16/17539-8
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research
• Start date: August 20, 2017
• End date: January 30, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Lilian Maria Pinto Sales
• Grantee: Lilian Maria Pinto Sales
• Host Investigator: Daniel Cefai
• Host Institution: Escola de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (EFLCH). Universidade Federal de São Paulo (UNIFESP). Campus Guarulhos. Guarulhos , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
• Associated research grant: 15/02497-5 - Religion, law and secularism: a new civic repertoire in Contemporary Brazil, AP.TEM

Abstract

The present proposal is supposed to investigate the concept of the controversy in three theoretical lines of French thought: the sociology of action (founded by Luc Boltanski and the Groupe Sociologie politique et morale researchers); The controversies cartography (started by Bruno Latour and researchers at the MediaLab, at Sciences Po) and the sociology of the public and of mobilizations (developed by Daniel Cefaï and researchers of the Institut Marcel Mauss, at EHESS). The three lineages take the dispute process as privileged objects of research, thinking that the collective actions directs to the transformation of the social world. The objective of this project is to map the appropriations of this concept by each one of these approaches, analyzing the formulations and uses of the term for each of the theoretical lines, and identifying approaches and distances between them. (AU)