Construção epistemológica das ciências da sustentabilidade

Abstract

The production of knowledge has been shaped over the years, science takes place from ruptures in knowledge generating new methods, concepts and epistemologies. Science is not disconnected from the social paradigm, and at the same time it represents this paradigm. The development of science itself is an element of social transformation that changes ways of life, values and even cognitions. Sustainability is a portrait of this, in which the entire scientific development around the topic was shaped by social movements, while suffering his influence. Science was also the subject of this movement. Sustainability emerges as a sociopolitical phenomenon, alongside other movements, which generated epistemologies, such as blackness, feminist and gender theories, queer theory. Science was one of the elements that contributed to shaping and express these phenomena. In this context, sustainability sciences emerge as a very dense research field with different characteristics. Some of these characteristics are precisely in this sociopolitical and scientific character. From this, the objective is to seek epistemological elements that emerge from this sociopolitical movement, and that compose sustainability as a field of knowledge. The method used was the systematic analysis of literature which allowed, through the thematic repetition of the research objectives, to observe what was being depicted about the sciences of sustainability from scientific publications. The results indicated: that it is a field that emerges from a sociopolitical demand in the context of a set of social movements, and therefore, interdisciplinary cooperation is accompanied by transdisciplinary interactions; knowledge results from intense dialogue between the local and global scales; governance and territoriality in dealing with scales presuppose valuing traditional knowledge in connection with territoriality and collaboration; solidarity is an intrinsic and historical element of sustainability sciences.