Banca de DEFESA: MARCUS VICTOR SIQUEIRA JOSUA GOMES

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STUDENT : MARCUS VICTOR SIQUEIRA JOSUA GOMES
DATE: 03/12/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: https://meet.google.com/bvt-hnjv-kpk
TITLE:

Alternative Libraries and Counter-Colonial Thought: A Confluence Towards a Theoretical and Practical Shift in Library Science

KEY WORDS:

Popular libraries; Community library; Traditional public library; Epistemic anarchism; Germinating words; Counter-colonialism.

PAGES: 181
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Ciência da Informação
SUBÁREA: Biblioteconomia
SUMMARY:

Recognizing the library as a political device is fundamental for advancing as a theoretical and professional field, with a view to humanizing our society, which is unjust and unequal. For Marx and Engels, society is divided into two opposing poles: on one side, the bourgeois class – which owns the means of production – and on the other, the working class, which sells its labor power in exchange for a wage that, in large part, is insufficient and does not meet people's basic needs. This theoretical work aims to discuss how counter-colonial thought contributes to broadening the reach of the Popular and Community Library in terms of conceptualization and action in society. Furthermore, its specific objectives are: a) To highlight the conservative bias of Library Science from the perspective of the traditional public library, which has historically been aligned with the dominant and colonialist power; b) To analyze the theoretical contributions of the counter-colonial perspective, aiming to relate them to Library Science studies from the perspective of alternative libraries (popular and community libraries). c) To develop an informative booklet that promotes the appreciation and dissemination of alternative (popular and community) libraries as devices for critical, political, and social action. Regarding a methodological framework for constructing and developing our language based on the idea that the philosopher Paul Feyerabend addresses in his texts, epistemic anarchism, a critique of the rationalism and positivism of science that promotes epistemic plurality, thus producing an encounter in this text between traditional knowledge (philosophies of the South) and Library Science. Finally, we conclude that a counter-colonial Library Science is conceptually placed within the so-called germinating words, which form the four fundamental premises: confluence, sharing, involvement, and biointeraction – these premises give rise to a series of products and services that can be provided by libraries in general. Furthermore, it is necessary to train professionals in this same perspective. Therefore, it is necessary to produce a primer that presents this counter-colonial Librarianship, so that praxis can be promoted within the counter-colonial paradigm.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 1132649 - GABRIELLE FRANCINNE DE SOUZA CARVALHO TANUS
Interna - 3061498 - NANCY SANCHEZ TARRAGO
Externo à Instituição - OSWALDO FRANCISCO DE ALMEIDA JUNIOR - UEL