As apropriações da Memória na Ciência da Informação: estudos conceituais nas produções científicas do sul global

Abstract

This research aims to identify how the concept of memory is represented in the scientific productions of countries located in the context of the Global South. As a theoretical framework, Concept Theory was used, which establishes principles for the analysis of the structure and relationships between concepts. The research, of a bibliographic nature, was carried out through searches in the Regional Online Information System of Scientific Journals of Latin America, the Caribbean, Spain and Portugal (Latindex), in order to gather scientific productions on the concept studied. For data processing, both Concept Theory and Content Analysis were used, with the corpus consisting of recent national and international publications in the areas of Archival Science, Library Science, Documentation and Information Science. The text discusses the process of institutionalization of Information Science in the context of the Global South, establishing a conceptual approximation between Latin American researchers, highlighting the concepts of decolonial pedagogy and anticolonial intercultural paradigm. The domain of memory, within the scope of Information Science, appears as an appropriate theme for prominent institutions, such as the National Association for Research and Graduate Studies in Information Science (ANCIB), at the national level, and, at the international level, the International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO) and the Association for Education and Research in Information Science of Ibero-America and the Caribbean (EDICIC). The relationships between information and memory are analyzed in three dimensions: human/cognitive, artificial/physical, and sociocultural. The latter is explored in depth in the results through nine categories that highlight how the concept of memory is represented in the scientific productions of the Global South: Collective Memory, Social Memory, Places of Memory, Historical Memory, Subterranean Memory, Cultural Memory, Memory of the World, Institutional Memory, and Organizational Memory. The study provided a broader understanding of how memory is represented within the scope of Information Science nationally and internationally. Based on the elements analyzed, a predominance of French and Anglo-Saxon theoretical frameworks is observed in the conceptualizations adopted by researchers from the Global South. Based on the research conducted, it was found that the Eurocentric worldview has been universalized, influencing even studies on memory that have shown us the colonizing character of knowledge and highlighted the need for theoretical endeavors that, from a decolonial perspective, propose new meanings to established conceptual representations.