A gestão encarnada do conhecimento científico-acadêmico: cartografias de grupos de grupos de pesquisa em gênero, sexualidade e queer na Bahia (2009-2019).

Abstract

In the last decade there has been an expressive growth in the production of scientific knowledge about gender, sexualities and queer in Brazil and, especially in Bahia. This shift, quantitative and qualitative, stems from a government policy (2003-2016) that enabled the emergence of a political-academic scenario favorable to the institutionalization of themes, the formation and consolidation of research groups at universities, albeit in a precarious way. On the other hand, knowledge management, a field whose theoretical and practical formulation, apparently does not dialogue with the themes of gender and sexuality. This study comprises an effort to bring these two areas of knowledge closer together, since there are no studies dedicated to establishing connections and ruptures with the neoliberal proposal that overdetermines management practices. The objective is to map the processes of production, management and diffusion of scientific knowledge through the trajectory of the leaders of ten research groups on gender, sexuality and queer in Bahia between the years 2009 and 2019. To access and understand this modus operandi, I assume the perspective of the “Pesquisador Encarnado”, an experimental and theoretical-analytical modeling built in the course of the UNEB Research Group, in personal experiences and with feminist epistemologies. To this end, I use a qualitative approach based on a bricolage of different techniques and instruments that includes semi-structured interviews, documentary sources such as the CNPQ group directory and other cultural textualities such as facebook. In line with the cartographer's know-how in his invention policy, I build a problematic field with a view to expanding the theoretical scope of knowledge management from a third way, among the market capitalist logics, the political commitment to life, the justice and collaborative science, in addition to contributing to the consolidation of the epistemological statute of “knowledge management”, a field in formation. The results point to an idea of management as a cognitive phenomenon embodied in other (re) existences that places in relation to the three dimensions: life management, epistemic management and organizational management.