Science without Borders Program: Geopolitics of knowledge and the Brazilian development project

Authors

  • Rogéria Campos de Almeida Dutra Professora do Departamento de Ciências Sociais - Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora-MG Author
  • Leonardo Francisco de Azevedo Programa de Pos-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2016.52.2.10

Abstract

This paper aims to investigate the growing internationalization of higher education by examining the federal government’s Science without Borders Program, highlighting the academic debate on topics such as territorial boundaries and flows, globalization and geopolitics of scientific knowledge. It also aims at analyzing this program on the basis of official speeches and news present in the mainstream media, observing its conception, forms of participation and early developments. As a method, we used literature review and documental research in order to see how the Science without Borders Program, although strategic for Brazil’s development as an important nation of the Southern Hemisphere, reproduces conventional values. Far from questioning the current Western model of development, it is based on the center-periphery model and on the supremacy of natural science as a way of integrating our country into the valued industrial and technological routes of the world system.

Keywords: higher education, geopolitics of knowledge, Science without Borders.

Author Biographies

  • Rogéria Campos de Almeida Dutra, Professora do Departamento de Ciências Sociais - Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora-MG

    Graduada em Ciencias Sociais

    Doutorado em Antropologia Social - Museu Nacional - UFRJ

    Atualmente professora do Departamento de Ciências Sociais e do Programa de Pos-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

  • Leonardo Francisco de Azevedo, Programa de Pos-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora
    Graduado em Ciencias Sociais  e mestrando do Programa de Pos-Graduação em Ciencias Sociais da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

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Published

2016-07-04

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Vol. 52 No. 2 (2016): May/August

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How to Cite

Science without Borders Program: Geopolitics of knowledge and the Brazilian development project. (2016). Ciências Sociais Em Revista, 52(2), 234-243. https://doi.org/10.4013/csu.2016.52.2.10