Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaPolitization, participation, and innovation: Socializing agricultural research in Bolivia
Using the case of agricultural research in Bolivia during the neoliberal period, this paper argues that there is a need to bring politics into science, but differentiates between two levels: politics as a mode of governance or a political project that shapes the scientific process (macro-politics),...
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Lenguaje: | Español Inglés |
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Universidad del Pacífico
2017
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.up.edu.pe/index.php/apuntes/article/view/808 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/53118 |
| Sumario: | Using the case of agricultural research in Bolivia during the neoliberal period, this paper argues that there is a need to bring politics into science, but differentiates between two levels: politics as a mode of governance or a political project that shapes the scientific process (macro-politics), and politics as an eternal process of contestation in society (micro-politics). To support this argument, we focus on the Foundation for the Promotion and Research of Andean Products (PROINPA) to demonstrate how the “macro-political” project of neoliberalism decentralized and privatized agricultural research services, redefining research agendas, and the relationship between researchers and end-users of technology; and, in turn, how researchers responded to this project, adapting and contesting neoliberalism in their everyday activities (micro-politics). |
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