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| Author(s): |
Victor Uehara Kanashiro
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: | 2010-11-17 |
| Examining board members: |
Leila da Costa Ferreira;
Renato Ortiz;
Dimas Floriani;
Lúcia da Costa Ferreira;
Roberto Paereiras
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| Advisor: | Leila da Costa Ferreira |
| Abstract | |
Since the last decades, the issue of sustainability has been established as one of the main challenges of the XXI century. Increasingly present in discourses of governments, international organizations, CEOs, political parties, media, NGOs and social movements, it has also been internalized in the scientific field, appropriated and theorized by scientists of different areas and through distinct theoretical-political biases. In this sense, this dissertation analyses the scientific debate on sustainability by means of a sociology of knowledge of the environmental issue. Departing from a bibliographic review, it proposes expressive conceptions of total sustainability and equates the problem of the origin of the differences on the theme by the mannheimian concept of perspective. For this, besides a brief theoretical discussion on the sociology of knowledge, this work reconstructs the argumentative logic of each conception, identifying its theoretical bases and features. Accordingly, six conceptions of total sustainability are proposed: a) ecoefficiency; b) degrowth; c) stationary-condition; d) ecodevelopment; e) ecosocialism; f) risk society. In addition, it includes an empirical analysis on articles about sustainability indexed on Scielo Brazil database. Combining quantitative and qualitative methods (content analysis), the aim of this empirical entrepreneurship is to understand how do Brazilian academics tend to appropriate the term and the issue of sustainability. The results show that there is an increasing quantity of articles on the subject being published in Brazil, this production is made by scientists from different areas of knowledge and has been influenced by the various conceptions of sustainability, with a predominance of the ecoefficiency and ecodevelopment. The research has been developed in the context of the FAPESP project (process 05/52317-1) - held by the Center for Environmental Studies at the University of Campinas - whose aim was to develop a sociology of environmental issue, of interdisciplinarity and global changes, investigating whether specificities emerges from the internalization of environmental issues in Latin-american social sciences as a result of the socio-environmental characteristics of the subcontinent (AU) | |