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Sweet dreams?: Testing prognostics and reinterpreting sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil

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  • André Sica de Campos
  • David Tyfield
  • Leonardo Freire de Mello
  • Brian Garvey
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Article number2398950
<mark>Journal publication date</mark>31/12/2024
<mark>Journal</mark>Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society
Issue number1
Volume7
Publication StatusPublished
Early online date2/12/24
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

We present a framework regarding analysis of, and engagement with, socio-technical innovations and power/knowledge trajectories for sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil, testing post hoc our prognostics against recent factual evidence. This assessment offers evidence regarding the value of such analysis, given the relative rarity of research that revisits anticipated changes in Science and Technology Studies. Contending that learning and improving our forms of engaged analysis demands such retrospective assessment, we report results of a 2014/2015 study on sugarcane ethanol biofuel and automobility in Brazil. In this study, we analyze the discourse of a “responsible research and innovation” (RRI) perspective and confirm particular trends in Brazil.