Prática informacional em redes no domínio da governança da água: um estudo sobre o processo de produção do conhecimento

Abstract

This thesis investigates the process of knowledge production and informational practices in research groups in the knowledge domain and the scientific field of Water Governance, through the configurations of the researchers' networks. It stems from the understanding of Water Governance as a complex domain, composed of a theoretical and practical character that is interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity, by requiring the integrated participation of several disciplines in the reflection of issues related to water management, as well as other actors in the scientific field and society. It is theoretically-conceptually framed by the concept of field (Pierre Bourdieu) and knowledge domain (Birger Hjørland and Hanne Albrechtsen). It uses the concepts of social network and informational practice as operational elements in the analysis undertaken in the empirical field of research. It is empirically based on the identification of selection criteria for research groups, researchers and scientific articles. It utilizes documentary research and scripted interview as methods of data collection. It adopts, for data analysis, qualitative methodologies and social networks analysis. It concludes that the dynamics and processes of production, mediation and appropriation of knowledge in the knowledge domain of Water Governance must extrapolate the disciplinary boundaries of knowledge organization as an alternative in the critical approach to complex phenomena.