Abstract
Abstract In this article I seek to present certain problematics related to the ProSAVANA agricultural development program, highlighting a mismatch between a political sphere and a scientific sphere, which allowed me to reflect on some effects of the technical discourse that has guided the implementation of this international cooperation project. From research that sought to do an ethnography on the operationalization of this program, I intend to present the manner in which such technopolitical breakdowns in the proposed “technologies transfer” have produced a composition of different temporalities, which conferred a particular pace to the effectiveness of ProSAVANA. In order to describe this strange relation between different forms of knowledge that are expressed in the time of accomplishing a development project - unfolding at different speeds -, I follow the idea of Mbembe (2011) that in the postcolony, time is constantly emerging. In this sense, throughout this article I seek to describe how, by decomposing these different speeds, it is possible to understand the temporalities that emerge from the particular entanglement of technopolitical relations that confer the materiality of this development project.
Highlights
Vanessa Parreira PerinThe ProSAVANA program is a triangular cooperation proposal signed between the governments of Japan, Brazil and Mozambique, which has sought to execute technical projects for agricultural development in the northern region of this African country
In this article I seek to present certain problematics related to the ProSAVANA agricultural development program, highlighting a mismatch between a political sphere and a scientific sphere, which allowed me to reflect on some effects of the technical discourse that has guided the implementation of this international cooperation project
The ProSAVANA program is a triangular cooperation proposal signed between the governments of Japan, Brazil and Mozambique, which has sought to execute technical projects for agricultural development in the northern region of this African country
Summary
The ProSAVANA program is a triangular cooperation proposal signed between the governments of Japan, Brazil and Mozambique, which has sought to execute technical projects for agricultural development in the northern region of this African country. As Gupta (1998) indicates, in order to understand why certain agricultural policies have been promoted, how they are implemented and why they are adopted or challenged by farmers, it is important to keep in mind three different frameworks: the discourse of development and its modernization strategies; a change in the nature of global capitalism; the technological transformations promoted by the green revolution Each of these “macrologies” brings a different temporality, creating both moments of overlap and disjuncture and intersections. It is in this sense that throughout this article I try to describe how, by decomposing the different speeds implicated in the implementation of the ProSAVANA program, it is possible to understand the temporalities that emerge from the particular entanglement of techno-political relations that confer the materiality of this development project
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