POST MEMORY

CONCEPTUAL HISTORICAL ANALYSIS AND PROPOSALS FOR INFORMATION SCIENCE

Abstract

This work aims to analyze the concept of Post Memory using the method of conceptual historiography, seeking to map its emergence, its theoretical shifts, and its appropriations in different fields of knowledge. From this perspective, it intends to explore how the concept can contribute to research and practices in Information Science, particularly those focused on the organization, preservation, mediation, and dissemination of documents, collections, and informational objects related to inherited memories from narrative disputes about the past. The guiding question of the research is: How is the concept of Post Memory presented in the interdisciplinary literature, and how can it be appropriated by Information Science to broaden the understanding of the processes of preservation, organization, mediation, and appropriation of documents and collections linked to social memory? Thus, the general objective of this work is to describe, through conceptual historiography, the constitution and shifts of the concept of Post Memory, with a view to identifying its possible theoretical and operational contributions to Information Science. This work was carried out through a literature review, where it was possible to note that the concept of Post Memory undergoes fluctuations and changes proposed by its own creator; however, even with these changes, it was possible to identify certain areas of Information Science that can benefit from research on the subject.