Campo transversal e novas hierarquias científicas: o caso do IPCC

Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade

doi:10.20336/rbs.1011

Authors

Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade Universidade Federal de São Carlos

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20336/rbs.1011

Keywords:

transversalism, science, climate change, IPCC, climate research

Abstract

The relationship between scientists and non-scientists within research organizations was historically debated in the field of Sociology of Science. In the case of climate change, this issue also has major implications. Severel social scientists have discussed how non-scientific agentes have interfered in the production of Knowledge about climate change. The perspective of transversalism, developed by Terry Shinn, can be extremely valuable in this debate. The case of the IPCC provides a good example of a new model of scientific action, in which the mechanisms of affiliation and institutional recognition demand a capacity for productive and competitive effectiveness that is even more incisive than in traditional hierarchical systems. Embedded with its own transversal reputational system, the IPCC would have the potential to reformulate scientific and political hierarchies based on an open and renegotiated system of competences. In this paper we aim to present different analytical trends that study IPCC, many of them linked to the perspective of co-production between political and scientific sectors in one hand, and others closer to Bourdieu's relational sociology. As a result, we sought to point out the potential of the transversalism vision for understanding the dynamics of the Panel's functioning.

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Author Biography

Thales Haddad Novaes de Andrade, Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Professor Titular do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de São Carlos.

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