Que verdades podem nos fazer livres? desvelando discursos àìmòtológicos de gênero e raça nos espaços das universidades

Abstract

This study aims to analyze àìmòṭ ológical (ignorances) manifestations towards perceptions of the knowledge produced and gender and race issues, of professors of graduate courses at UTFPR and UTP, from their respective enunciative speeches sphere. As an initial motivational element, a Master’s dissertation, which was defended in August 2017, was taken, in which it was sought to insert a gender perspective in the public metrics of the scientific production of professors, of two programs stricto sensus of the Campus Curitiba of the UTFPR, from the official databases. It should be noted that the nature of this research is qualitative and interpretive, localized, interdisciplinary and situated. A theoretical/methodological effort was sought to establish a discursive analytical path of its own, to dialogue with the speeches of interviewed teachers from UTFPR and UTP. Along with the creation of this analytical instrument, a concept/notion of systemic and collective ignorance was also presented, denominate àìmòṭ ológia. This concept had as basic foundations, in addition to the scientific literature already produced on the science of ignorance, some collective fundamentals of Afro cultures, starting from dialogues carried out from held between 2019 and 2020 with a Bàbálórìsà and a Ìyálórìsà. These conversations carried out, with the maximum collective authorities of Candomblé, finally became one of the methodological/analytical procedures of this thesis; the research instruments to be used will be semi-structured interviews with male and female professors from stricto sensus technical courses in the field of engineering and humanities from the two universities (combined with notes from the fieldwork carried out during the doctoral internship and other research carried out in Brazil before the Doctorate Sandwich). In the case of the Colombian university, the interview period covered the months of March to July 2019. With regard to the Brazilian university, the interviews were carried out throughout the year 2017 (after approval of the project by an ethics committee, a process of direct progression from master’s to doctorate and partial research evaluation by PPGTE postgraduate program) to September 2018. Thus, the choice of the country and academic supervision abroad were under the following criteria: ethnic, racial, culture, economic and social composition with similarities to the Brazilian reality; context of research with elements similar to those carried out in Brazil; context of a university with characteristics and singularities to the Brazilian and / or Latin American reality and, finally, academic supervision of regional / Latin American relevance for the studies of gender in Science and Technology. Observing similar and different realities of Colombian and Brazilian postgraduation allows us to think of new Latin American epistemologies of scientific and technological production, criticizing the way in which documents are produced to disseminate the academic production of professors and the intersectional questions present, such as the culture of each country, social and sexual division of labor, racism, sexism and LGBT phobia, project financing, collaborative work between Latin American and other continents researchers, ways to think of science in diverse areas and the power relations between the researchers.