Banca de DEFESA: Matheus Almeida Pereira Ribeiro

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STUDENT : Matheus Almeida Pereira Ribeiro
DATE: 28/08/2023
TIME: 15:30
LOCAL: Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Brasília
TITLE:

POSTGRADUATE STUDIES ABROAD AND GEOPOLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE: PROFILE AND DETERMINANTS OF THE INTERNATIONAL CIRCULATION OF BRAZILIAN SOCIOLOGISTS (1964-1985)

KEY WORDS:

History of Social Sciences; Geopolitics of Knowledge; Military Dictatorship; Postgraduate Education; Intellectuals

PAGES: 448
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

The institutionalization of social sciences in Brazil, as well as in other nations of the Global South, is directly influenced by power asymmetries in the field of knowledge. This doctoral thesis approaches the history of social sciences through the problem of knowledge geopolitics, focusing on a central dimension of the academic formative process: the establishment of graduate programs. Conducting research on a paradigmatic period for international academic flow in Brazilian history, and focusing on a specific discipline, this endeavor addresses the following question: to what extent did global asymmetries that structure power relations in the field of knowledge shape the profile and determinants of the international circulation of Brazilian sociologists during the military dictatorship? The investigation is primarily based on a bibliographic analysis of specialized literature on the history of social sciences, examining the conditions of formation and structuring of institutions between 1930 and 1960, and the development of science, technology, and graduate structures during the military dictatorship. Subsequently, it delves into the profile of international flows abroad through quantitative data analysis of Brazilian sociologists who pursued graduate courses abroad between 1964 and 1985. Finally, the study includes 15 interviews with sociologists who received their education abroad to identify the factors that influenced their experiences. Firstly, it was possible to observe that global asymmetries in the field of knowledge directly affect the construction of institutions and research projects in social sciences in Brazil during the 1930s and 1960s. The articulation between national and foreign actors and institutions, influenced by categories such as "absence," "uniqueness," and "development," solidified relations of  dependence and peripheralization of the national intellectual field. The development of the national science, technology, and graduate system was directly influenced by the United States between 1964 and 1975, and the national government's pursuit of greater scientific and technological autonomy from 1975 onwards was unable to break free from institutional dependence, resulting in further cultural and symbolic subordination of the Brazilian scientific community to institutions in the Global North. In the first half of the military regime, foreign funding from institutions aligned with U.S. foreign policy was crucial for the realization of master's and doctoral degrees abroad, with a particular emphasis on the United States. From 1975 to 1985, there was a strengthening of scholarships from national agencies, CAPES and CNPq, which, however, maintained patterns of unilateral flow from center to periphery. The analyzed data indicated that the topics of graduate students reflect, potentially, peripheral patterns of Brazilian academic integration into the global division of intellectual labor, with a predominance of national case studies and influences of modernization theories. Among the factors that influenced the trajectories of outward flow were the lack of local access to graduate programs, deferential relationships with institutions, authors, and intellectual productions from the Global North, and gender-related social roles. However, trajectories between 1964 and 1975 were more dependent on extra-institutional contact networks to access funding, mostly foreign, while intellectuals who were educated between 1975 and 1985 were influenced by the greater solidity of national agencies, with a lesser impact of direct state repression. The thesis highlights the relevance of knowledge geopolitics in studies of the history of social sciences in Brazil, revealing how global asymmetries and power relations shaped the development of the Brazilian sociological field.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - MARCIA CRISTINA CONSOLIM - UNIFESP
Interno - 1642428 - FABRICIO MONTEIRO NEVES
Interna - ***.629.831-** - FERNANDA ANTONIA DA FONSECA SOBRAL - NÃO INFORMADO
Externo à Instituição - JOAO MARCELO EHLERT MAIA - FGV
Presidente - 1505195 - SERGIO BARREIRA DE FARIA TAVOLARO