BLACK SCHOLARSHIP AND THE FIGHT AGAINST EPISTEMICIDE IN GT12 OF ENANCIB
Keywords:
epistemicide, black scientific production, black librarianship, decoloniality, G12Abstract
This paper addresses epistemicide, Black scientific production, and anti-racism in Brazilian Information Science. It starts from the recognition that, although the field has expanded debates on ethnic-racial relations, decoloniality, Black Librarianship, and epistemic justice, historical marks of erasure, silencing, and underrepresentation of Black intellectual production still persist. The problem investigated refers to the persistence of Eurocentric, male, and white references as the dominant axis of scientific validation, as well as the low presence of studies on the Black population in databases, events, and institutional spaces in the field. Specifically, the aim was to identify studies on the Black population, characterize their main theoretical, thematic, and political approaches, and discuss the importance of GT 12 of ENANCIB as a space for the circulation and strengthening of these productions. Methodologically, it is a qualitative, exploratory, and bibliographic-documentary research, based on the survey and interpretative analysis of scientific productions on epistemicide, Black Librarianship, whiteness, decoloniality, and informational justice. In the end, it presents a synthetic framework with the main marks of epistemicide in Information Science, identified from the developed study.