“Gato encerrado” o “confidencialidad comercial”: el problema del secreto en la venta de un reactor nuclear
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Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. Facultad
de Ciencias Sociales
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En este artículo se propone abordar uno de los aspectos medulares de la
disputa pública que surge a partir de la venta de un reactor nuclear
diseñado por una empresa argentina a Australia en el año 2000. Se trata del
problema del secreto que atraviesa, para quienes están involucrados en la
misma y desde dos perspectivas claramente diferentes, la operación
comercial. A través del análisis de las categorías locales que hacen a la
configuración del problema del secreto, gato encerrado y secreto comercial,
se pretende explorar algunas de las dimensiones sociales, históricas y
simbólicas que se articulan en las narrativas que dan vida a esta disputa.
Asimismo, se pretende dar cuenta, por ese medio, de qué manera el proceso
de construcción de significados es también un proceso de construcción de
colectivos sociales (Hecht 1996). Finalmente, se concluirá con una breve
reflexión sobre la relevancia analítica y conceptual de la etnografía en el
campo de los estudios sociales de la ciencia y la tecnología y, más
específicamente, en el ámbito de las disputas públicas que, como ésta,
involucran el desarrollo, la producción y el conocimiento científico y
tecnológico.
This paper deals with one of the many aspects of a science and technology dispute regarding the sale of a nuclear reactor designed by an Argentinean company, INVAP, to Australia in 2000. The analysis is mainly centered on one of the most relevant axis of the conflict: the problem of the secret that passes through a commercial operation. The objective of the article is, on the one hand, to explore some of the social, historical and symbolic dimensions related to the narratives that shaped the dispute through an analysis of the local categories that articulate the secret’s problem (“gato encerrado” and “secreto comercial”) and to show through this analysis how the process of constructing meanings is also a process of constructing social collectives (Hecht 1996). On the other hand, the aim of this paper is to reveal some of the possibilities that the ethnographic method offers for the study of this kind of dispute related to research, development, and production in the field of science and technology, isolating perspectives which could be of great help in deepening understanding of such topics.
Fil: Spivak L’ Hoste, Ana. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Brasil
This paper deals with one of the many aspects of a science and technology dispute regarding the sale of a nuclear reactor designed by an Argentinean company, INVAP, to Australia in 2000. The analysis is mainly centered on one of the most relevant axis of the conflict: the problem of the secret that passes through a commercial operation. The objective of the article is, on the one hand, to explore some of the social, historical and symbolic dimensions related to the narratives that shaped the dispute through an analysis of the local categories that articulate the secret’s problem (“gato encerrado” and “secreto comercial”) and to show through this analysis how the process of constructing meanings is also a process of constructing social collectives (Hecht 1996). On the other hand, the aim of this paper is to reveal some of the possibilities that the ethnographic method offers for the study of this kind of dispute related to research, development, and production in the field of science and technology, isolating perspectives which could be of great help in deepening understanding of such topics.
Fil: Spivak L’ Hoste, Ana. Universidade Estadual de Campinas; Brasil
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Etnografía, Conocimiento científico, Ciencias Sociales, Australia, Reactor nuclear, Ciencia y tecnología