Uma construção pelos vencidos: a biblioteca popular e comunitária tecendo memória e resistência

Abstract

This text, constructed from bibliographical research, reflects on the tensions of memory, calling for a perspective of the historical memory of the Zapatista experiences, expressed in the work of Sebastião Vargas Netto (2007, 2011). The text also calls upon Benjamin's (1987) concept, elaborated in his theses on history, questioning history as a Marxist and irresistible anti-progress discipline, with a Jewish and materialist messianic base. It establishes a relationship with the popular and community library – created and maintained by the people – and its production of memory, a fundamental phenomenon for the construction of another history. It seeks to answer the following question: in what way can Library Science contribute to the use of memory as a category of emancipation in society? Its objective is to discuss the community and popular library as a device for organizing, disseminating and constructing the memory of the oppressed, with a view to social transformation. The community library must therefore adopt a critical stance in the face of this situation, as it represents a powerful rupture within the field of Library Science and Information Science with conservative thinking. It concludes that the intertwining of the community library as a device for reclaiming the narratives of the exploited, radically opposing the neoliberal model of the world, is a necessary and urgent path to be followed for a more effective community construction that is open to dialogue with a view to socio-historical transformation