Sapere Aude - Dare to know: Narratives and Epistemological Reflections on Science and Tourism Research

Abstract

The text aims to present, from narratives, epistemological reflections on Science and Tourism research, considering schizo traits of Investigative Travel, as proposed by Baptista (2014, 2020a, 2022). This is an essay-oriented production, which is based on the proposition of Science, which involves research on Tourism, developed with a holistic complex ecosystem character. To this end, the text has as a writing orientation and methodological theoretical framework, a look at the epistemology of Science, with special reasoning from Crema (1989), Santos and Meneses (2009), Santos (2010), and Baptista (2021a, 2022), with an epistemological position in Tourism, mainly from Beni and Moesch (2017) and Baptista (2020b). It develops from a narrative presentation, based on authors such as Martinez (2012), Botton (2016), and Baptista (2021, 2022). Therefore, travel narratives are considered as a device that produces research, from the inscription of the subject as a way of doing science in Tourism, with strategic methodological guidance from Cartography of Knowledge by Baptista (2014, 2020a). As a result, there is a look beyond Kant's illuminist motto (1985), with searches based on Horacio's Latin lyric poetry (Salema, 2013). In this way, the confluence of the perception of Sapere Aude is understood as a dynamic of contemporary scientific production to think about Science and Tourism, from a production matrix that 're-cognizes' and 're-connects' knowledge and practices, as it perceives that the research subject is a subject on an investigative journey, and the traveling subject is daring, courageous, daring. Therefore, juxtaposing these two subjects makes it possible to think of science from a potentiality of self-recognition and the reconnection of knowledge, through new epistemes, considering movement and travel as essential marks of the production of subjects, places, and Science.