Universidade Federal de Campina Grande/PB (UFCG): sustentabilidade ambiental, produção científica, meio ambiente (2002-2021).

Abstract

The hegemonic production and consumption model based on the exploitation of natural resources throughout the history of mankind's socioeconomic development imposes important and urgent reflections about the great achievements and alleged functional shortcomings that resulted in the dilapidation of the natural heritage in such a way that compromises the existence condition of future generations. On the threshold of this environmental issue, the role of science is highlighted. The scientific community projects itself as the holder of important power in relation to current corporate problems both in terms of the generation of knowledge to solve problems and impasses and the risk of creating or intensifying them, influencing and even determining the conditions of life in the short and long term. In Brazil, the internalization of environmental concerns in universities has been subtly redesigning itself and still with a departmentalized aspect, but presents important achievements in the introduction of interdisciplinary research in various fields of knowledge and the problematization of the theme of sustainable development. In this context, the Federal University of Campina Grande presents an original history and an outstanding projection in the national and international academic environment. Thus, this thesis aims to produce a study on the role of UFCG regarding environmental sustainability, through reports and memories of the history of scientific production of UFCG on the climate-environmental issue. For this, it will apply as methodology the qualitative approach, using the case study and, as research method, the Oral History, for understanding that these offer the guarantee of the sense of thoroughness of the individual, social, cultural and political construction of memory and, therefore, contributes to the construction of history in a more democratic and expanded way. As a result, we found that most of its research is determined by market demands, imposed by funders, which, even when they are public, start from a market logic and follow a public educational policy all defined in capitalist molds and, as has been happening in Brazilian public universities, the UFCG has increasingly produced knowledge destined for private appropriation, limiting itself to a mainly technicist conception and under market values of science (analytical and, at most, reformist). It was also found, in addition to other elements, that its researchers, although unconsciously, have operated more within the organizational than institutional logic.