Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem como foco central a análise dos dilemas presentes na produção de conhecimento acerca das emoções e do comportamento humano nas neurociências. Para isso, realizou-se uma etnografia em um laboratório atuante na seara da psicofisiologia ou neurobiologia das emoções. Mais especificamente, trata-se de um centro de pesquisas que atualmente realiza experimentos com universitários, militares e pacientes psiquiátricos no intuito de investigar questões relativas ao chamado transtorno do estresse pós-traumático, o neuromarketing, entre outras questões relacionadas à violência urbana e situações aversivas de um modo geral. Para compreender a centralidade adquirida pelo corpo e em especial o cérebro na definição da Pessoa, buscou-se acompanhar o cotidiano de transformação e atualizações neurocientíficas de problemáticas já postas desde o delineamento histórico do fisicalismo moderno. Buscou-se atentar ainda para as trajetórias dos programas de pesquisas desenvolvidos e da vida acadêmica das/os pesquisadoras/os, assim como para as controvérsias intrínsecas a uma atividade científica que se propõe a discutir uma ontologia para o humano. / This work has as central focus the analysis of the quandaries gifts in the production of knowledge concerning the emotions and of the human behavior in the neurosciences. For this, an ethnography in an operating laboratory in area of the psychofisiology or neurobiology of the emotions was become fullfilled. More specifically, one is about a center of research that currently carries through experiments with colleges student, military and psychiatric patients in intention to investigate relative questions to the call post-traumatic stress disorder, neuromarketing, among others questions related to the urban violence and aversive situations in a general way. To understand the centrality acquired for the body - and in special the brain - in the definition of the Person, one searched to follow daily of transformation and problematic the neuroscienfics ece of fish updates already since the historical delineation of the modern fisicalism. One searched to still attempt against for the trajectories of the developed programs of research and the academic life of the researchers, as well as for the intrinsic controversies to a scientific activity that if considers to argue a ontology for the human being.

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho tem como foco central a análise dos dilemas presentes na produção de conhecimento acerca das emoções e do comportamento humano nas neurociências. Para isso, realizou-se uma etnografia em um laboratório atuante na seara da psicofisiologia ou neurobiologia das emoções. Mais especificamente, trata-se de um centro de pesquisas que atualmente realiza experimentos com universitários, militares e pacientes psiquiátricos no intuito de investigar questões relativas ao chamado transtorno do estresse pós-traumático, o neuromarketing, entre outras questões relacionadas à violência urbana e situações aversivas de um modo geral. Para compreender a centralidade adquirida pelo corpo e em especial o cérebro na definição da Pessoa, buscou-se acompanhar o cotidiano de transformação e atualizações neurocientíficas de problemáticas já postas desde o delineamento histórico do fisicalismo moderno. Buscou-se atentar ainda para as trajetórias dos programas de pesquisas desenvolvidos e da vida acadêmica das/os pesquisadoras/os, assim como para as controvérsias intrínsecas a uma atividade científica que se propõe a discutir uma ontologia para o humano. / This work has as central focus the analysis of the quandaries gifts in the production of knowledge concerning the emotions and of the human behavior in the neurosciences. For this, an ethnography in an operating laboratory in area of the psychofisiology or neurobiology of the emotions was become fullfilled. More specifically, one is about a center of research that currently carries through experiments with colleges student, military and psychiatric patients in intention to investigate relative questions to the call post-traumatic stress disorder, neuromarketing, among others questions related to the urban violence and aversive situations in a general way. To understand the centrality acquired for the body - and in special the brain - in the definition of the Person, one searched to follow daily of transformation and problematic the neuroscienfics ece of fish updates already since the historical delineation of the modern fisicalism. One searched to still attempt against for the trajectories of the developed programs of research and the academic life of the researchers, as well as for the intrinsic controversies to a scientific activity that if considers to argue a ontology for the human being.

Esta dissertação teve como objetivo descrever, à luz da obra de Bruno Latour, as construções de natureza e sociedade pelas redes de humanos e não-humanos da ciência das mudanças climáticas em São Paulo. As mudanças climáticas estão no olho do furacão de um dos debates científicos e sociopolíticos mais importantes da atualidade pelo risco que representam às antigas classificações das ciências modernas, que distinguem totalmente os domínios do humano e do natural. Este estudo buscou contribuir para o avanço teórico e etnográfico nas áreas de mudanças climáticas, da antropologia da ciência e da tecnologia, dos estudos sociais de ciência e tecnologia (science studies). O projeto teve início com o mapeamento da rede paulista de pesquisadores de mudanças climáticas dedicados à produção, ao desenvolvimento e ao uso da modelagem climática computacional, assim como o levantamento bibliográfico de antropologia e história das ciências e das ciências das mudanças climáticas. A partir da seleção de entrevistas com alguns informantes mapeados e da leitura do material bibliográfico levantado, o trabalho realizou uma discussão, seguindo a teoria do ator-rede, da história das classificações de humano e natural em risco na ciência de mudanças climáticas e uma discussão dos diferentes elementos e relações sociotécnicas produzidos e que a compõem. / This study concerns a description of nature and society production, according to Bruno Latour, in the human and non-human networks of climate change science in Sao Paulo. Climate change is at the eye of the storm in one of the most important scientific and sociopolitical debates of our time, due to the risks it presents to the old classifications of modern science, which distinguish the human and natural dominions. This study aimed at promoting developments in anthropological theory and ethnography in the fields of climate change, anthropology of science and technology, science studies, and actor-network-theory. The research started with mapping the network of climate change scientists in Sao Paulo dedicated to the production, development, and use of computer climate models and with selecting the literature concerning anthropology and history of science and climate change science. Based on interviews of mapped researchers and the selected literature, this study discusses following actor-network-theory the history of human and natural classifications at risk in climate change science and the different sociotechnical elements and relations that compose it and are produced by it.

Esta dissertação teve como objetivo descrever, à luz da obra de Bruno Latour, as construções de natureza e sociedade pelas redes de humanos e não-humanos da ciência das mudanças climáticas em São Paulo. As mudanças climáticas estão no olho do furacão de um dos debates científicos e sociopolíticos mais importantes da atualidade pelo risco que representam às antigas classificações das ciências modernas, que distinguem totalmente os domínios do humano e do natural. Este estudo buscou contribuir para o avanço teórico e etnográfico nas áreas de mudanças climáticas, da antropologia da ciência e da tecnologia, dos estudos sociais de ciência e tecnologia (science studies). O projeto teve início com o mapeamento da rede paulista de pesquisadores de mudanças climáticas dedicados à produção, ao desenvolvimento e ao uso da modelagem climática computacional, assim como o levantamento bibliográfico de antropologia e história das ciências e das ciências das mudanças climáticas. A partir da seleção de entrevistas com alguns informantes mapeados e da leitura do material bibliográfico levantado, o trabalho realizou uma discussão, seguindo a teoria do ator-rede, da história das classificações de humano e natural em risco na ciência de mudanças climáticas e uma discussão dos diferentes elementos e relações sociotécnicas produzidos e que a compõem. / This study concerns a description of nature and society production, according to Bruno Latour, in the human and non-human networks of climate change science in Sao Paulo. Climate change is at the eye of the storm in one of the most important scientific and sociopolitical debates of our time, due to the risks it presents to the old classifications of modern science, which distinguish the human and natural dominions. This study aimed at promoting developments in anthropological theory and ethnography in the fields of climate change, anthropology of science and technology, science studies, and actor-network-theory. The research started with mapping the network of climate change scientists in Sao Paulo dedicated to the production, development, and use of computer climate models and with selecting the literature concerning anthropology and history of science and climate change science. Based on interviews of mapped researchers and the selected literature, this study discusses following actor-network-theory the history of human and natural classifications at risk in climate change science and the different sociotechnical elements and relations that compose it and are produced by it.

La thèse traite de la valorisation comme un processus à la fois continu, constructif et contesté. Elle aborde cette question théorique au travers de l'étude d'un objet de valorisation complexe : le traitement des déchets nucléaires aux États-Unis. Objet ontologiquement ambivalent, les déchets nucléaires peuvent être valorisés ou dévalorisés selon des perspectives très variées, qui offrent à la sociologie de l'évaluation un banc d'essai pertinent. La thèse s'appuie sur l'étude d'une série de situations où la formulation des valeurs du nucléaire pose problème. Ce sont, notamment, l'ordonnancement et les vicissitudes du processus budgétaire mis en œuvre pour financer le programme de gestion des déchets nucléaires Nord-américain, les plans conçus pour répartir la responsabilité financière dans le traitement d'un matériau qui selon toutes prévisions restera dangereux pendant un million d'années, les efforts d'un groupe d'acteurs pour attacher l'avenir de leur communauté à celui des déchets nucléaires, ou les utilisations d'une convention pour estimer la valeur économique du combustible usé. La thèse montre que les processus de valorisation et dévalorisation sont loin de se limiter à l'objet soumis à évaluation ; ces processus rendent d'autres valeurs explicites, les valeurs "de l'État", d'une communauté politique, d'une convention économique. La thèse propose d'utiliser la notion de « révaluation », d'une part, parce qu'elle permet d'expliciter l'imbrication des relations entre les processus d'évaluation et de valorisation et, d'autre part, parce qu'elle permet de souligner la particularité de la période sur laquelle porte la recherche, à savoir une période où la relance de l'énergie nucléaire a été publiquement débattue et où le gouvernement américain cherchait à reformuler sa politique de gestion des déchets nucléaires. / This thesis approaches valuation as an on-going, constructive and contested process. She addresses this theoretical issue through the study of a very complex object of valuation: nuclear waste in the context of the United States. As an ontologically ambivalent object, nuclear waste can be valued or devalued from many angles, which provides an intriguing and exciting test bed to unfold a sociology of valuation. The thesis examines a multitude of sites where the question of the formulation of nuclear values is being raised. These sites are, for example, the design and vicissitudes of the budgetary process conceived to finance the North American nuclear waste program, the trials set up in order to distribute the financial responsibility of a material expected to remain hazardous during the next million years, the efforts of a group of actors to attach the future of their community to the future of nuclear waste, or the uses of an economic convention to estimate the economic value of spent nuclear fuel. This thesis shows that processes of valuation are never limited to the object that is subjected to valuation and proposes the notion of revaluation, first, to articulate the intertwined relationship between the processes of evaluation and valuation, and second, to signify the particularity of the period during which the research has been undertaken, namely a moment when the revival of nuclear energy was publicly debated, and a moment when the U.S. government was seeking to reformulate its nuclear waste policy.

AHEAD (Adventures in Health, Education, and Agricultural Development) is a small grass-roots non-governmental organization working in the rural Meatu, District in Northern Tanzania. The AHEAD project employs Tanzanian nurses who provide health education, child weighing and nutritional counseling, family planning, and antenatal services. AHEAD has recently developed a water quality testing initiative in order to combat unsafe water supplies using solar pasteurization. Dr. Robert Metcalf, an AHEAD volunteer offers "expertise" to Meatu through transfer of solar cooking technology. Each summer, AHEAD takes volunteers into this setting who bring with them both "altruistic" and non-altruistic reasons for volunteering, economic and social capital, and a taste of the world beyond Meatu. This thesis looks at the Summer 2001 AHEAD experience ethnographically from three perspectives: 1) as public health practice, 2) in relation to the contested domain of international "development" , and 3) situated within the larger literature of non-profit and volunteer action research. These three snapshots of AHEAD suggest a project of globalization, theorized as the flow of people, goods, and information across boundaries. / Master of Science

This dissertation asks how inhabitants of a sustainable village are living out Germany’s transition from nuclear to renewable energy. The sustainable village remains a locus of optimistic attachments for renewable energy advocates, who argue that a decentralized power grid will enable people to more directly participate in power production and politics as “energy citizens.” Yet while rural areas have become sites of speculation, innovation and growth, few rural-dwellers are enfranchised in (or profiting from) the technoscientific projects in their midst. I draw upon 13 months of fieldwork in a northern German village transformed by wind turbines, photovoltaics and biofuels to consider why, asking what kinds of public life flourish in the absence of democratic engagement with renewable technologies. This ethnography engages the village as multiply constituted across domains of everyday life, including transit, farming, waste management, domestic life, and social gatherings. I found that environmental policy, everyday practices, and the area’s material histories combined to produce ontologies—senses of what exists—that circumscribe citizen participation in the energy sector, affording more formal opportunities to men than to women, and privileging farmers’ interests in plans that impacted the larger community. These findings illuminate how many villagers become ambivalent toward the project of the energy transition and disenfranchised from its implementation. Yet many who were excluded from formal participation also engaged with renewable technologies as they sensed out their worlds, using tropes of sustainable energy and technoscientific materials to place themselves in this emerging energy polity. Their everyday worldmaking brimmed with what I call unruly energies, structures of feeling that registered more as affects than as discourse. In the village, these took form as sensory disturbances, disquiet among neighbors, technoscientific optimism and skepticism toward environmental policy. These affective modes of attention, investment and participation were vital aspects of public life that shaped the transition’s unfolding. They exceeded liberal models of renewable energy citizenship, which presume that socioeconomic interest and environmental commitment are universal among citizens. In this way, unruly energies compel more nuanced attention to the multiple, contingent, site-specific ways in which citizenship takes form in the making of eco-capitalist energy infrastructure. / text