Sixteenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability

Abstract

The biological diversity of Brazil is composed of six biomes: amazon, cerrado, caatinga, Atlantic forest, wetlands, and pampa. The caatinga is the only one that biologists recognize as exclusively Brazilian among them. Such distinction is produced by plants, animals, and biologists in research contexts. Considering this, this work proposal seeks to put into circulation discourses related to the works of biologists and plants which linked in trans-specific relations and which circumscribe territories in the biological sciences from the description of endemisms of the caatinga. This study is an unfolding of an ethnography which was developed between the years 2011 and 2016 in biological sciences labs of the Southwest of Bahia State University that shifted the focus from the strictly human to the relations between biologists, plants, and other entities. It is a multidisciplinary research experience which is located between the biological sciences and the social sciences. By focusing on practical contexts of trans-specific relationships between biologists and plants, it is possible to understand taxonomy as relational construction, classification, and history.