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| Author(s): |
Mateus Oka
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Master's Dissertation |
| Press: | Campinas, SP. |
| Institution: | Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas |
| Defense date: | 2022-02-24 |
| Examining board members: |
Joana Cabral de Oliveira;
Guilherme José da Silva e Sá;
Eliane Sebeika Rapchan
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| Advisor: | Joana Cabral de Oliveira |
| Abstract | |
The chapters shown in this dissertation seek to take forward the consequences of an assertion elaborated by Donna Haraway, in which she proposes that the making of scientific knowledge can be comprehended as a power-charged conversation. The attempt made, thus, is to think about this proposition in dialogue with the experience of observation and listening of primatologists from the Psychology Institute of the University of São Paulo that study robust capuchin monkeys in Brazil. This research occurred in the context of sanitary restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Therefore, it was possible to accompany the research activities of primatologists just because they were also under similar limitations, migrating their work to digital platforms. With the narratives of the professor of the primatologists' group about her academic trajectory, the field of actions that makes scientific knowledge was expanded, paying attention, in particular, to how the monkeys themselves impose their terms to the primatologists’ research demands. In addition, the observation of the research practices of one of the students in this group allowed a discussion about the skills that monkeys and primatologists have to "make the other do"; to manage each other's attention and gazes; to negotiate distance; and to "touching" the other – even without physical contact. These capacities were viewed as a form of power that is not only human but emerges from a particular encounter provided by the possibility of doing a primatological science (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 20/03861-0 - Among scientific objects: what relations is the field of primatology made of |
| Grantee: | Mateus Oka de Farias |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Master |