Social inequalities, poverty and sustainable development. New questions linked to models of knowledge that serve as the basis for political action.
In order to discuss policies for confronting poverty while taking into account integration demands posed by the problematics of sustainable development, we must dispose of a precise type of knowledge that enables us to carry out a descriptive diagnosis of the social inequalities and specific interac...
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| Lenguaje: | Portugués |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
2009
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| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/2175-7984.2009v8n14p145 http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-033&d=article11617oai |
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| Sumario: | In order to discuss policies for confronting poverty while taking into
account integration demands posed by the problematics of sustainable
development, we must dispose of a precise type of knowledge that enables
us to carry out a descriptive diagnosis of the social inequalities and specific
interactions that involve a variety of social groups and the bio-physical
and constructed environment – in time and space.. Do we truly dispose
of the knowledge we need to carry out such a project? Do we know how
to produce it? How to bring it up-to-date? Converging observations have
shown us that at present, valid knowledge on this interaction is scarce.
Furthermore, access to existing knowledge is generally very problematic
and possesses scant practical applicability. Thus, political decision-makers
who consider this knowledge necessary must generally face a wide range of
difficulties. A number of clues that indicate a way beyond these limitations
have been discovered and can provide a better articulation of scientific
knowledge political decision-making. Through observations, interviews
and bibliographic research, it has become possible to distinguish between
four ideal-types of ways of understanding these relationships: expertise,
“evidence-based decision”, normative approaches and participatory approaches
centered around the ideal of co-production of knowledge. Each one of these ideal types corresponds to a specific way of approacing the
relations between the production of scientific knowledge and processes
of public decision-making, which refer us back to a well-defined corpus of
contributions available in the technical literature on this issue. Each one
of these approaches maintains specific relations with empirical reality and
results in challenges that we subject here to critical evaluation.
Keywords: Inqualities, poverty, sustainable development, political action. |
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