NATURAL-CULTURAL STORIES

SPECULATIVE FABULATIONS BETWEEN INFORMATION SCIENCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL HUMANITIES

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Keywords:

environmental humanities, informatio science, speculative fabulation, naturalcultural

Abstract

Under the clouds of the Anthropocene, this research has as its bibliographic-speculative repertoire the collection of natural-cultural stories between Information Science (IS) and Environmental Humanities (EH). The starting question is: built and accumulated over the centuries, how can information practices be remodeled in natural-cultural terms in the face of the environmental challenges of our time? The general objective is to investigate the possible and existing relationships between IS and EH. The specific objectives are: i) to map the relationships between IS and EH, ii) to demonstrate, based on an interposition of narratives collected in academic-scientific literature, the possibilities of a different perspective on informational studies, notably anthropocentric. This is quali-quantitative research of a bibliographic nature and resulted in a corpus of 125 works analyzed, within the thematic belt researched. With a speculative approach, only 1 study directly addressed the relationship between IS and EH. Given the incipience of the existing thematic relationship, we propose a speculative fabulation between the fields based on natural-cultural issues that cross the formless acts (informis) of informing multinatural and multispecies worlds. In the end, amidst the ruins of our time, we conclude that to discourage the machination of the world in view of an ancestral future, it is necessary to confabulate in the home of informational studies with other companion species.

Author Biographies

  • Luani Messias da Costa, Federal University of Sergipe

    Ph.D. candidate in Information Science at the Federal University of Sergipe (PPGCI/UFS). I hold a master’s degree in Information and Knowledge Management and a bachelor’s degree in Library Science and Documentation, both from the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS). I serve as a volunteer instructor in the Department of Information Science (DCI/UFS), teaching courses with methodological, technical, and cultural focuses in the fields of Library Science, Documentation, and Information Science.

  • Vinícios Souza de Menezes, Federal University of Sergipe

    Adjunct Professor in the Department of Information Science at the Federal University of Sergipe (DCI UFS). Deputy Coordinator of CAPES’ Professional Graduate Programs in the Field of Communication, Information, and Museology (2026–2030). Researcher at the Brasoc Network: Knowledge Organization Systems in Brazil (2024–2026). Ph.D. in Information Science from the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2017). Postdoctoral fellowship through the Graduate Program in Information Science at the Brazilian Institute of Information in Science and Technology (IBICT) in partnership with the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2020). Master’s degree in Information Science from the Federal University of Bahia (2012). Research Fellow at the National Library of Brazil Foundation (2012). Bachelor’s degree in Library Science and Documentation from the Federal University of Bahia (2009). 

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Published

2026-11-13

Conference Proceedings Volume

2026: XXVI ENCONTRO NACIONAL DE PESQUISA E PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIA DA INFORMAÇÃO

Section

GT 1 – Estudos Históricos e Epistemológicos da Ciência da Informação

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