EPISTEMOLOGIAS DA FLORESTA: PROTAGONISMO FEMININO E A DESCOLONIZAÇÃO DA CIÊNCIA NA AMAZÔNIA

Abstract

This article comparatively examines the mechanisms shaping visibility, leadership, circulation, and recognition in consolidated female scientific trajectories in the Amazon. It argues that Amazonian science is territorially grounded yet marked by material and symbolic asymmetries, where validation and assessment regimes operate as infrastructures of recognition. The framework connects territory and regional development to decolonial critique, decolonial feminism, and the glass ceiling (Quijano, 2000; Mignolo, 2011; Santos, 2014; Acker, 1990; Cotter et al., 2001). Methodologically, the study adopts a comparative multiple-case design (2×2) with purposive sampling, using public documentary evidence from the Lattes CV platform and a curated publication corpus. Analyses combine bibliometrics, co-authorship networks, and text mining (word clouds, TF–IDF, and PCA) with content analysis. Findings reveal a shared Amazon-oriented thematic core alongside distinct disciplinary lexical signatures, indicating that female agency takes the form of a constellation of agendas rather than a single profile. Composite indicators show heterogeneous configurations of territorialization, international circulation, and leadership, suggesting that the conversion of productivity into recognition is mediated by institutional ecologies and metric-driven routines.