FEMINIST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AS A PRACTICE OF EPISTEMIC JUSTICE

AN ANALYSIS OF THREE PODCASTS FROM INCT CALEIDOSCÓPIO

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55738/alaic.v25i52.1401

Keywords:

Feminist science communication, Epistemic justice, Situated knowledges, INCT Caleidoscópio

Abstract

The article analyzes the feminist science communication policy of the INCT Caleidoscópio based on three podcasts linked to its institutional strategy. Combining a critical review of science communication models with feminist critiques of scientific neutrality, the study draws on the perspectives of situated knowledges and embodied objectivity. Methodologically, it conducts a qualitative analysis of the dimensions of production, circulation, and appropriation. The results reveal processes of redistribution of epistemic authority and tensions in traditional hierarchies of scientific mediation.

Author Biography

Karla Bessa, Núcleo de Estudos de Gênero - Pagu/Unicamp

Researcher at the Pagu Gender Studies Center at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Professor in the Graduate Programs in Multimeios (Institute of Arts) and the Doctorate in Social Sciences (IFCH) at the same institution. She is the vice-coordinator of the INCT Caleidoscópio - Institute of Advanced Studies in Inequities, Inequalities, and Gender and Sexuality Violences and their Multiple Insurgencies (UNB/CNPq), where she coordinates the Science Communication sector. She held postdoctoral fellowships at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of Michigan (2004), the ISCTE - University Institute of Lisbon (2008), and the Department of Film Studies at King's College London (2014), where she was also a Visiting Researcher (2010/2011 and 2023). She was an Assistant Professor in the Department of History and the Graduate Program in History at the Federal University of Uberlândia (1994-2008). She holds a BA in History from the Federal University of Uberlândia (1990), and an MA (1994) and PhD (2000) in Social History from the University of Campinas. She served as Editor of the journals História & Perspectivas (2006-2008) and Cadernos Pagu (2012-2014). She has coordinated the CinePagu Outreach Project since 2009. She served as a curator for the Mostra Internacional de Audiovisual Curta o Gênero (Fortaleza) from 2012 to 2021. Member of the Executive Board of the National Network of Feminist, Transfeminist, Anti-racist, Transdisciplinary, and Decolonial Studies (2021-2024). Her research and supervision focus on Feminist Studies, sexual equity, gender diversity in arts and sciences, cultural history, audiovisual studies, cinema, imaginaries, and violence.

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Published

10/19/2026

How to Cite

FONSECA, I.; BESSA, K. FEMINIST SCIENCE COMMUNICATION AS A PRACTICE OF EPISTEMIC JUSTICE: AN ANALYSIS OF THREE PODCASTS FROM INCT CALEIDOSCÓPIO. Revista Latinoamericana de Ciencias de la Comunicación, [S. l.], v. 25, n. 52, 2026. DOI: 10.55738/alaic.v25i52.1401. Disponível em: https://revista.pubalaic.org/index.php/alaic/article/view/1401. Acesso em: 19 oct. 2026.

Issue

Vol. 25 No. 52 (2026): Perspectivas feministas da investigação em Comunicação: construir comunidades para a resistência e a esperança

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Dossiê: Perspectivas feministas da investigação em Comunicação

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