Rachel Carson e a primavera silenciosa: análise histórico-epistemológica para um saber sobre ciências
Is it possible to watch our society without the interference of science? Is it possible to split science from politics? In times of pandemics, we can see how science is able to provide solutions to public health policy issues, in addition to realize how this action takes place intertwined with polit...
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| Resumo: | Is it possible to watch our society without the interference of science? Is it possible to split
science from politics? In times of pandemics, we can see how science is able to provide
solutions to public health policy issues, in addition to realize how this action takes place
intertwined with political and economic interests. The science education field has changed its
approaches in an attempt to offer a science teaching that surpasses the merely content, bringing
historical, philosophical, and sociological contexts that elucidate other elements that comprise
the scientific practic. In this work, we focused on studies guiding a Knowledge about Science
or Nature of Science (NoS) to think about the use of a historical case which enables a historicalepistemological discussion about scientific practice. For this aim, we resorted to the episode
experienced by the American biologist Rachel Carson (1907-1964), who was accused of being
a pseudoscientist after publishing her Silent Spring (1962) book. By denouncing the risks
behind the unsystematic use of pesticides in the postwar United States, Rachel became a target
of several criticisms that sought to delegitimize the validity of her work. However, the diffusion
of her work took place in such an expressive way that until nowadays Rachel is considered
mother of the modern environmental movement. In our analysis, we are guided by the science
perspective defended by the philosopher Bruno Latour, who by stating that we were never
modern, leaves room for inquiring about the conceptions of progress and constitution of a
neutral, dissociated from culture, and fully objective science. Latour’s ideas help us to perceive
other elements of Rachel Carsons’ case by proposing his Actor-Network Theory (ANT) as an
exercise of looking at social events incorporating humans and non-human actors. Our analysis
is expanded and corroborates the arguments defended by Latour, when we bring, in a second
moment, some considerations endorsed by the ecofeminist Carolyn Merchant, dialoguing with
Donna Haraway’s Cyborg Manifest. Merchant presents her conception of nature death by
outlining how Scientific Revolution and its representatives mobilized different ways of dealing
with nature, prioritizing mechanistic ideals. The path followed in this text is intended to
establish an analytical dialogue among the consulted authors with Rachel’s troubled passage
through the universe of science. We understand that this case mobilizes several discussion
topics that are of interest to defenders of a scientific education that guides scientific work in a
more complex and critical way, pointing the ways in which science relates to aspects of subjectivity, politics, and feminine. |
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