Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: OTTO ARTHUR MATHEUS SANTOS DE SOUSA

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : OTTO ARTHUR MATHEUS SANTOS DE SOUSA
DATE: 21/12/2022
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: CPDA/UFRRJ
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Commodification of Pollination: a multi-sited look at bee-assisted pollination

 

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Keywords: Bees; Pollinator Crisis; Assisted Pollination; Multi-sited Ethnography; Anthropocene.

PAGES: 60
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUBÁREA: Outras Sociologias Específicas
SUMMARY:

 

 

Faced with the rapid environmental changes experienced in the Anthropocene, the decline of pollinators emerged as a warning sign of the ecological conditions of the present. With the biological simplification and standardization of landscapes, pollination has increasingly become a commodified relationship – a service that must be produced (in the sense of caring for and transporting beehives) and acquired by commercial means. In this form, bees are allocated to assisted pollination service arrangements, being transported and moved to supplant agricultural crops. Thus, this research project seeks to investigate, through multi-sited ethnographic fieldwork, the connections that are established between bees and humans in market arrangements that seek to instrumentalize the work of insects in the pollination of crops cultivated on a commercial basis. This is an investigation to be carried out on coffee crops in the south of Minas Gerais and in the southern region of Brazil, comprising municipalities with a strong fruit growing activity in the states of Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interna - 1432841 - CLAUDIA JOB SCHMITT
Interno - 387237 - JOHN WILKINSON
Interna - 1551581 - THEREZA CRISTINA CARDOSO MENEZES
Externa à Instituição - GRACIELA FROEHLICH