Psychedelic Nation? (De)Provincializing the Psychedelic Renaissance from Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5338113 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pietro Benedito (0009-0009-9905-7210, CNRS), Emilia Sanabria (0000-0002-5595-7905, CNRS, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 475-502 |
| Publication date | 2024-12-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Science Technology & Human Values (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0162-2439 • E-ISSN: 1552-8251 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/01622439241300210 |
| OpenAlex | W4405628036 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 43 |
Research into the therapeutic potential of psychedelic substances has garnered spectacular international attention. Most of this focuses on research in the Global North. In this article, we examine Brazil's scientific contribution to the psychedelic renaissance. Brazilian psychedelic science thrives thanks to a strong pharmaceutical innovation system and the legal status of ayahuasca, which has allowed it to develop a distinctive, globally relevant research paradigm. Unlike in many countries, this research program is mostly publicly funded through universities, showcasing Latin America's ability to produce competitive science despite oftentimes severe financial limitations. In part shaped by traditions of saúde coletiva, social medicine, psychiatric reform, and harm reduction activism, Brazilian psychedelic science has historically maintained close ties to local communities of knowledge, particularly the ayahuasca churches, some of which have partnered with clinical research laboratories. Drawing on ethnographic research with actors of the Brazilian psychedelic research community we argue that provincializing the psychedelic renaissance means challenging the patent-driven, neoliberal mindset that makes the idea of a shared, publicly funded psychedelic research commons seem impossible. We show that this ideal has nevertheless been quietly put into practice in places like Brazil, at least as long as its universities received adequate public funding
Art history · Commons · Counterculture · Ethnography · Mindset · Political science · Sociology · The Renaissance · Anthropology · Biochemical Analysis and Sensing Techniques · Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research · History · Law · Psychedelics and Drug Studies
Health Innovation and Social Justice in Brazil
A Third University Is Possible
Inclusion of people of color in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy
Attempting to Imagine the Unimaginable
Rapid antidepressant effects of the psychedelic ayahuasca in treatment-resistant depression
Psychedelics
Epistemologies of the South
Whitewashing psychedelics
Set, Setting, and Clinical Trials
Constructivist Paradoxes Part 2
A reforma psiquiátrica no SUS e a luta por uma sociedade sem manicômios
Acid liberalism
Pharmacokinetics of Hoasca alkaloids in healthy humans
The Psychedelic Renaissance in Clinical Research
Trends in the Top-Cited Articles on Classic Psychedelics
Ayahuasca in Adolescence
Um balanço da reforma psiquiátrica brasileira
Postcolonial Technoscience
Anthropophagy, European enlightenment, science and technology studies, and responsible knowledge construction in Brazil
Saúde coletiva
Provincializing Europe and Deprovincialising Africa
Provincializing Sts
Public Health and Social Ideas in Modern Brazil
Latin American Decolonial Social Studies of Scientific Knowledge
The psychedelic renaissance and the limitations of a White-dominant medical framework
Crises that mismatch canons in science
Molecular Sovereignty
O campo da Saúde Coletiva no Brasil
The Activist State
Dark Side of the Shroom
Worlds and Knowledges Otherwise
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |