I am going through a difficult time. Between a thousand jobs, I keep rummaging through archives and links about my father, Professor Bernardo Beiguelman, who died on October 5.
UNICAMP, the university to which he devoted his career, dignifying the idea and practice of public service, research, and teaching, is organizing a section in its Memory Center in his honor.
Because of this, I found his unpublished manuscript on the need to think about policies and the practice of science in Brazil from an anthropophagic perspective.
There he discusses the precariousness of our institutions. (A precariousness that is sometimes more ideological than real…)
Without yielding to the clichés of the supposedly poor and helpless.
Without yielding to “citationism” and the ranking machine.
Without yielding, as he put it, to a frequent-flyer-mile approach to crediting a researcher’s status and importance.
I do not have the original text. I will search his computer.
What appears here is the fruit of the digging done by journalist Tatiana Nahas. She was the one who published the gem For an Anthropophagic Movement in Science on her blog. Read on.