Pensamentos e identidades em ciência, tecnologia e sociedade no mundo ibero-americano

Abstract

The purpose of this book is to gather the contributions of a group of researchers who have delved into science, technology, development and society, thus sharing the accumulated and ongoing research, namely perspectives that value the role of ideas and actors which in the Ibero-American tradition represent an intellectual property relevant to serious reflection on science, technology and society (STS), or that had a direct influence on the paths of science, technology and innovation (STI) policies. The idea of emphasizing the need to understand and situate the contributions of individual thought, in its historical context of collective knowledge production, in the STS area in particular, emerges as a way of qualifying the debate on the relations between science and technology (S&T) and the role of both in development in contemporary societies. That way we have gathered here various contributions, from the most relevant to a historical understanding of the policy of science and technology in Ibero-American nations – their institutional arrangements, their discourses, with special emphasis on the role of the actors involved, the individualized agents of politics, their thinking and their respective argumentative strategies, interests and affiliations, whether philosophical or political-ideological –, to those contributions that deal with emerging and unique themes of the STS area in Latin America – i.e. solidarity economy or social technology –, as well as more cross-cutting reflections, on the development model of the contemporary world, how these orientations are impacting the peripheral realities, or even a final reflection on the identity and maturity of the STS field in Latin America.