O Arbítrio da Matemática: mentes, moral e números

Este artigo tem como tema a Sociologia da Matemática. Seu objetivo é desenvolver um encaminhamento para uma compreensão do que vem a ser “o social”, de tal forma que seja aberta uma discussão sobre as fronteiras e as margens da Matemática e da Educação Matemática. Discutindo algumas formas de ver a Matemática, acadêmica ou pública, e considerando questões como ética, moral e valores em sala da aula, os autores questionam o mito do “arbítrio da Matemática”. Tradução: Jussara de Loiola Araúj

Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

We introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of community- level social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. We apply normative climate to a qualitative examination of men’s and women’s assessments of decade-long changes in their decision-making capacity in two village case studies as well as comparatively with 24 village cases from seven sub-Saharan African countries. The case studies reveal how a normative climate is shaped by contextual influences that give rise to social processes where, for instance, changes in decision-making and agricultural opportunities may be perceived as empowering by only men in one village, and only by women in the other village. Comparative findings highlight how perceptions of agency are rooted in fluid normative expectations that evolve differently for women and men as they move through their life cycle and as local institutions and opportunities change

Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

We introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of community- level social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. We apply normative climate to a qualitative examination of men’s and women’s assessments of decade-long changes in their decision-making capacity in two village case studies as well as comparatively with 24 village cases from seven sub-Saharan African countries. The case studies reveal how a normative climate is shaped by contextual influences that give rise to social processes where, for instance, changes in decision-making and agricultural opportunities may be perceived as empowering by only men in one village, and only by women in the other village. Comparative findings highlight how perceptions of agency are rooted in fluid normative expectations that evolve differently for women and men as they move through their life cycle and as local institutions and opportunities change

Stability of Shifting Ground. Feminist Ethnography and Practice

W niniejszym artykule problematyzujemy etap stabilizacji w procesie badań w terenie i pisania etnografii z perspektywy feministycznej. Rozpoczynamy od postawienia następującego pytania: w jaki sposób badaczki z zakresu feministycznych badań nad nauką godzą normatywną potrzebę stabilizacji naszego obszaru badawczego z tworzeniem wiedzy w obrębie ruchomego podłoża „roszczeń do prawdy”, uznawanego i dokumentowanego przez praktyki feministyczne? Centralną kwestią tego artykułu jest refleksja nad naszymi doświadczeniami jako feministycznych teoretyczek, nauczycielek i etnografek prowadzących badania nad ciążami wysokiego ryzyka w krajach rozwiniętych, szczególnie w Stanach Zjednoczonych, oraz nad gender i codziennymi technologiami w Zachodniej Afryce. Naszym celem jest teoretyzowanie tej niestabilności w celu podkreślenia ograniczeń i korzyści pracowania ze świadomością i refleksyjnością w kontekstach społecznych przy jednoczesnym rzucaniu wyzwań i wzbogacaniu energii naszych feministycznych teorii i praktyki.In this article the two authors problematize the moment of stabilization in doing fieldwork and writing ethnography from a feminist perspective. The paper begins with an introduction to the question: How do feminist science studies scholars reconcile a normative need to stabilize our research site to create knowledge within the shifting ground of “truth claims” that feminist practices acknowledge and document? The heart of the paper reflects on our experiences as feminist theorists, teachers, and ethnographers with vignettes from studies of high-risk pregnancies in the industrialized world, specifically the United States, and gender and everyday technologies in West Africa. Our goal is to theorize this instability in order to highlight the limits and benefits of working with consciousness and reflectivity in social contexts while challenging and enriching the vibrancy of our feminist theory and practice

Local normative climate shaping agency and agricultural livelihoods in sub-Saharan Africa

We introduce the concept of local normative climate to improve understanding of communitylevel social processes that shape women’s and men’s sense of agency and capacities for taking important decisions, including in their agricultural livelihoods. The idea of normative climate is informed by feminist literature that addresses concerns for the contextual, fluid, and relational properties of gender norms. We apply normative climate to a qualitative examination of men’s and women’s assessments of decade-long changes in their decision-making capacity in two village case studies as well as comparatively with 24 village cases from seven sub-Saharan African countries. The case studies reveal how a normative climate is shaped by contextual influences that give rise to social processes where, for instance, changes in decision-making and agricultural opportunities may be perceived as empowering by only men in one village, and only by women in the other village. Comparative findings highlight how perceptions of agency are rooted in fluid normative expectations that evolve differently for women and men as they move through their life cycle and as local institutions and opportunities change