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- Title
Embodying a Caring Science: An Ethnographic Analysis of the Communicative Practices of a Colombian Trans-Woman Scientist in the Media.
- Authors
Pérez-Bustos, Tania
- Abstract
This paper analyzes the communicative practices of a Colombian trans-woman scientist, biologist Brigitte Baptiste, when she speaks publicly about environmental issues on different media platforms. In the analysis, I explore the implications of Baptiste's public presence for the imaginaries of readers and journalists regarding science, scientists, and trans-people in Colombia. Leaning on certain feminist critiques of science, I analyze communicative practices as matters of care. Throughout the analysis, I find that care in Baptiste's public presence is performed through the ways in which she connects biodiversity and sexual diversity, thinking with trans-women's experiences to transgress the borders of science and connect it to activism and public service. I conclude that Baptiste's public presence in Colombia is an exceptional example of gender diversity acceptance in the present, though it does represent a speculative commitment towards embracing diversity in general in the future.
- Subjects
BAPTISTE, Brigitte; TRANS women; WOMEN scientists; SCIENTIFIC communication; COMMUNICATIVE action; SCIENCE in mass media; MASS media &; scientists; SEXUAL diversity
- Publication
Universitas Humanística, 2016, Vol 82, Issue 82, p429
- ISSN
0120-4807
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.11144/Javeriana.uh82.ecse