A decolonialidade na mediação da informação: uma análise dos trabalhos apresentados no GT3 ENANCIB

Abstract

Librariansihp and Information Science recognizes the need for a controlled vocabulary for identifying and treating information; however, as is expected from a democratic informational society, the need for subject areas expansion and adaptation of those areas in relation to new technological, social and cultural issues, is inevitable. In this sense, this undergraduate theses proposes to discuss, through an exploratory bibliographic research, and analyzed from a quali-quantitative perspective, what are the publication tendencies on ENANCIB, based on the theme of “decoloniality”. The analisys will be divided into two stages: first, we will survey the occurrences of themes that represent the decolonial theme in works published in all GTs, within the time frame of the last 5 years of the event (2016-2021); secondly, we will carry out a semantic analysis focusing on the GT3, aiming to make a comparison between both analysis. From this angle, we find that the decolonial theme is debated in a fragmented way in respect to possible subjects of subcategories, coupled to social guidelines, specially in subjects relating to resistence, gender and race, which is the most occuring theme in the GTs that focus on human sciences approaches. After the data analysis, we found that there’s an urgency in propagating the term “decoloniality” in Librarianship and Information Science, having in mind the cultural and social effects and scientific delay which colonialist acctions perpetuate, not only for information users, but also for all professionals, researchers and natives of a non colonial euro-american living standard. In this sense, we seek to point out the relationship between the usage of decolonial terms for visibility of subaltern bodies and themes that are affected by it, such as LGBTQIA+ people, women, black and indigenous people, among others, in GT3 publications. With that, we identified that the decolonial character, even though not always explicitly, marks the Information Mediation studies in its capability to rethink a plural, more inclusive Librarianship and Information Science, which reverberates both in sociocultural and academic spaces, from validation of different knowledge.