Interrupted Bodies, Ruptured Sciences: Gestational Grief as an Epistemic Event and a Critique of Academic Productivity
o luto gestacional como acontecimento epistêmico e crítica à produtividade acadêmica
Keywords:
gestational grief, epistemology, academic productivity, vulnerability, reproductive injusticeAbstract
This study analyzes how gestational grief, as an experience that destabilizes ontologies of continuity and productivity, reorganizes practices and material and epistemic conditions in scientific life. Based on a theoretical-critical approach that articulates documentary analysis (regulations, epidemiological data from SINASC/DATASUS) and autoethnographic narratives, the phenomenon is investigated as an epistemic event that exposes the tensions between vulnerable bodily temporalities and the technobureaucratic regimes of academic evaluation. The results show that the experience of loss, traversed by structural reproductive injustices, reveals the epistemic illegibility of suffering in academia, challenging hegemonic models of science based on neutrality and disembodiment. The conclusion points to the need to reconfigure policies and epistemologies, integrating care and vulnerability as foundations for a more just and equitable scientific life.
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