Ciência, modernidade, tecnologia e natureza: uma análise sobre o desenvolvimento do algodão naturalmente colorido na Paraíba.

Abstract

Changes that accompany the scientific and technological development – acting on a global scale through continuous innovations – are strategic elements in the transformation of markets and in relations with nature, to produce information and knowledge. The importance of networks of production, dissemination and appropriation of knowledge has become a strategic reflection on Science, nature and politics in modernity and its impact on economic, social and cultural. The development of technology of colored cotton by Embrapa researchers linked to Cotton, located in the city of Campina Grande (PB), presents itself as privileged case for research of these repercussions. Our goal here is to present a set of discussions, which refers to the ratio of production of science, nature and politics and their construction and uses and possibilities for inclusion of new actors in this debate. To analyse the interplay between science and technology for the development of agriculture in the Northeast, the work of Bourdieu and his notion of scientific field; de Latour, favouring interaction between scientific discourse and society and the concept of innovation.