Biotechnology, State and Power : the case CBA-Manaus / Biotecnologia, Estado e Poder na Amazonia : o caso CBA-Manaus

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2006

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The goal of this research is to study the events surrounding the creation of the Brazilian Molecular Ecology Program for the Sustainable Use of Biodiversity in the Amazonia (PROBEM) and the Center for Biotechnology in the Amazon (CBA), and the crisis that fell upon those projects. Our main hypothesis is that scientific practices related to genetical information and to biotechnology are also power practices and involve power relations. More specifically, we want to understand how conflicts between regional, national and international interests biotechnogical uses of biodiversity are inflected by hierarchies within the scientific field, relating on the one hand world centers and Brazil, and Brazil and Amazonia on the other hand. By means of an ethnographic study of science, combined to documental research and interviews with scientists, we propose to show how Brazilian biotechnology policies involve disputes over scientific capital and is connected to a world-wide scientific-technological network; we also want to show how they are part of a world-scale hierarchyzation of science which is part and parcel of the universalization of a mode of thought intimately linked to the universalization of capitalism

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biotecnologia ciencia biological diversity diversidade biologica - amazonia antropologia anthropology biotechnology science

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