Os agrotóxicos e a divulgação científica: o visível e o invisibilizado

Abstract

It is necessary to highlight the social importance of science and Scientific Divulgation, so that both can offer society, information on the relationship science / society, considering the direct link between the achievements of science and its direct and indirect impacts on the mankind and environment. The general objective of the research was to analyze the existence of political and economic forces in the approach of the subject on pesticides, focusing on the emergence of the discussion with Rachel Carson in the 60s of the 20th century in the USA, to the present day, mainly focusing on discussions Governmental organizations. Through the analyzes of the Magazines Science Today and Children´s Science Today, considering frequency, discursiveness and textual construction of the contents analyzed. We seek to identify the reports and their strategies of approach, considering the levels of problematizations present in the texts. To this end, a literature search was conducted using a qualitative approach in a theoretical perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of the magazines´ leads among 2000 and 2014. The magazines Science Today and Children´s Science Today publicly released 20 subjects with the theme that we present, in this temporal cut and their speeches are predominantly based on the environment, in spaces directed to the news. It should report that since the first edition, the magazine has positioned itself against the use of pesticides, not only presenting the dangers of use for humans and for the environment, but also arguing and advocating the use of ecologically viable alternatives such as sustainable use land, agro-ecology, the use of biopesticides or electronic tools pest detection, as well as presenting to the reader the latest changes as the legislation on the use of pesticides in the Brasil.