Modernidade e ciência: tensões no discurso agroecológico.

Abstract

Agroecology is being increasingly incorporated by social movements as a constitutive dimension of their proposals and claims. In Brasil, several scientific articles about agroecological experiences are being produced, showing, primarily, the agroecology as a way to promove the rescue of the peasantry tradition, reproduce the local knowledge, to produce healthy foods and to minimize dependence on government policies. In this study, I have as objective to analyze the discourse of agroecological movement, seeing the scenario responsible for the construction of categories of this discourse and its implicit political positions, taking as starting point the hypothesis that science is also a form of identity construction of social actors from the interaction of farmers with institutional apparatus promoter of agroecology. For such, I sought to realize if the beliefs defended by farmers and technicians who work with Community Seed Banks, conformed on the net Seeds of Passion, in Paraíba state, while one case among the various manifestations of agroecology, is a discourse crossed by an ideological stance from the contact with the purveyors of technical and scientific knowledge, or the widespread textual production is really based on empirical evidence, supported in the lives of farmers and symbolic aspects appeal to subscribers in certain tradition. So, I realize a theory informed critical about the scientific study of reality, offering also a reflection on the social sciences, on the subject of relations between society, nature and science.