Accredited US zoos aim to support wildlife conservation and educate and influence the public and create a conservation-minded community by curating immersive multispecies experiences. In this case study, I examine how zoos may practice conservation through the frameworks of biopolitics, spectacle, affect, and mainstream conservation paradigms. To conduct this research, I interviewed 10 zoo staff from the animal, education, development, and retail departments of a Midwestern zoo. Their rhetoric about zoos and how they practice conservation suggests that zoo staff aim to generate affective responses from guests by displaying animals in managed care. These affective responses that staff hope to generate have the potential to elicit behavioral changes in the public, such as making responsible consumer choices and donating to the zoo or to other conservation organizations. I conclude that these practices are examples of mainstream (neoliberalized) modes of conservation, which is conservation that is compatible with larger capitalist structures.

Submitted by Jean Medeiros (jeanletras@uepb.edu.br) on 2017-07-05T13:47:30Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Janaína Matias Ribeiro.pdf: 40281855 bytes, checksum: efa3906046d58c8a28b4e2c5d2ffc75b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Secta BC (secta.csu.bc@uepb.edu.br) on 2017-07-20T12:19:18Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Janaína Matias Ribeiro.pdf: 40281855 bytes, checksum: efa3906046d58c8a28b4e2c5d2ffc75b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-20T12:19:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Janaína Matias Ribeiro.pdf: 40281855 bytes, checksum: efa3906046d58c8a28b4e2c5d2ffc75b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-04-19 / Inside a social context deeply marked by the science and by the technology, one talks, inside and out of the academic community, the necessity of formation in such an extent, offering to a citizen subsidies to participate in the active and conscious form in the taking decision that they affect to themselves and to the world to his outline. In this sense, the Education on basis of the presuppositions CTSA (Science, Technology, Society and Environment) is shaped like an alternative. The present study had as I aim to analyse an educational intervention followed the perspective CTSA, taking students of initiation as a white public cientifica of a public school of Innovatory Secondary education, in the local authority of Esperança (PB). In the inquiry, of qualitative nature, the data were collected in three moments. Initially opted for examining the pedagogical political project of the school, in order to meet its educational proposal. After it was applied a questionnaire and an interview with the teacher responsible for the discipline of scientific initiation and research. Lastly was mounted on a proposal for a course directed by the education CTSA in the discussion of environmental issues. Were conducted five meetings which sought to discuss about science, water, solid waste, and the relationship between man and environment from methodologies varied as music, animation, reading, introduction, discussion, lectures, games, poetry, writing, videos and drawingsThe results show that the school does not present conceptions of an education CTSA in his teaching proposal, even with the directions of the national education stimulating this discussion. The teacher of the discipline of Scientific Initiation and Inquiry has no experience with the education CTSA, which reflects the absence of this type of discussion in his practice. The fulfilled experience, in the perception of the pupils, contributed for the reflection on science and relevant environmental and social subjects for formation citizen. They showed off participativos and filled with enthusiasm with the proposed activities, specially those who presented playful character. / Diante de um contexto social profundamente marcado pela ciência e pela tecnologia, discute- se, dentro e fora da comunidade acadêmica, a necessidade de formação em tal âmbito, oferecendo ao cidadão subsídios para participar de forma ativa e consciente nas tomadas de decisões que afetam a si e ao mundo ao seu redor. Neste sentido, a Educação com base nos pressupostos CTSA (Ciência, Tecnologia, Sociedade e Ambiente) se configura como uma alternativa. O presente estudo teve como objetivo analisar uma intervenção didática, orientada pela perspectiva CTSA, tendo como público alvo estudantes de iniciação científica de uma escola pública de Ensino Médio Inovador, no município de Esperança (PB). Na pesquisa, de natureza qualitativa, a coleta de dados foi realizada em três momentos. Incialmente optou-se pela análise do projeto político pedagógico da escola, visando conhecer sua proposta de ensino. Após foi aplicado um questionário e uma entrevista com o docente responsável pela disciplina de Iniciação Cientifica e Pesquisa da instituição, a fim de conhecer sua experiência com a Educação CTSA. E por fim foi montada uma proposta de curso orientado pela educação CTSA na discussão de temáticas ambientais. Foram realizados cinco encontros que buscaram discutir sobre ciência, água, resíduos sólidos, e a relação homem-meio a partir de metodologias variadas como músicas, animação, leitura introdutória, debate, aulas expositivas, jogos, poesia, produção de texto, vídeos e desenhos. Os resultados demostraram que a escola não apresenta concepções de uma educação CTSA em sua proposta de ensino, mesmo com as orientações da educação nacional incentivando essa discussão. O professor da disciplina de Iniciação Científica e Pesquisa não possui experiência com a educação CTSA, o que reflete a ausência desse tipo de discussão na sua prática. A experiência realizada, na percepção dos alunos, contribuiu para a reflexão sobre ciência, temas ambientais e sociais relevantes para formação cidadã. Eles se mostraram participativos e entusiasmados com as atividades propostas, especialmente nas que apresentaram caráter lúdico.