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

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Sica de Campos, André Luiz and Tyfield, David and de Mello, Leonardo Freire and Garvey, Brian (2024) Sweet dreams? : Testing prognostics and reinterpreting sugarcane ethanol biofuel in Brazil. Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society, 7 (1). 2398950. ISSN 2572-9861 (https://doi.org/10.1080/25729861.2024.2398950)

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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 revisit 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 2014/5 study on sugarcane ethanol biofuel and automobility in Brazil. In relation to this topic, the authors analyse the discourse of a ‘responsible research and innovation’ (RRI) perspective (Owen et al. 2021), identify particular trends in Brazil and confirm those.

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Sica de Campos, André Luiz, Tyfield, David, de Mello, Leonardo Freire and Garvey, Brian ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1931-8679;
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