A mediação da informação como epicentro do protagonismo social negro: do epistemicídio à [des]colonialidade nos anais do ENANCIB

Abstract

From the ignominy of slavery to the present day, the history of the Brazilian black population is full of struggle and resistance against processes of social exclusion. The myth of racial democracy contributed to the spread of different forms of racism and silencing of the black knowledge, black epistemicide. Epistemicide, as a mechanism for censoring lore, is the result of a modus operandi of scientific production immersed in political disputes and power relations. Given this, the general objective of this research was to analyze the relationship between information and black social protagonism, through scientific productions about the black population published in the annals of the Encontro Nacional de Pesquisa em Ciência da Informação (ENANCIB). Specifically, we sought to: a) map the productions and the researchers who have been producing on the black population within the scope of the annals of ENANCIBs; b) make the black protagonism visible among the authors who published research focusing on the black community at the event;c) List the themes found in the recovered works, to point out trends in ethnic-racial research at ENANCIB.The research corpus was extracted from abstracts and oral communications published in the annals of ENANCIB, an event of significant relevance in Information Science. The analyzed period comprises the years 1994 to 2019. To extract the results of the scientific production that makes up the corpus of the work, the bases of the metric studies of information were used, especially of scientometry. The research identified the social role of black researchers among the authors who published the most about the ethnic-racial theme, focusing on the black population in the ENANCIBs. Within the scope of the study, the practice of Professor Dr. Mirian de Albuquerque, the precursor of ethnic-racial research at IS, stands out. The study highlights the social role of librarians and teachers linked to this field of knowledge among researchers who consciously mediated informational content based on the anti-racist and anti-epistemic struggle. The results also make it possible to state the fruitful and inseparable relationship between the mediation of information and black social protagonism in ENANCIBs. The informational contents mediated consciously by the researchers reveal the access to information and knowledge as fundamental in facing the black epistemicide, with a view to the decolonization of knowledge. It is concluded that the scientific productions recovered, in the dissertation, constitute an important theoretical framework related to the theme, encourage the realization of new researches and favor the black social protagonism in the scientific field.