Libraries and other places of culture: resistances in marginalized territories.

• Grant number: 25/02412-1
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: August 01, 2025
• End date: June 30, 2028
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Information Science
• Principal Investigator: Marco Antônio de Almeida
• Grantee: Guilherme Fellipin dos Santos
• Host Institution: Escola de Comunicações e Artes (ECA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The research inserts itself into the field of problematizations and discussions regarding the capitalist appropriation of information and knowledge. Influenced by anticolonialist theories generally called "Epistemologies from the South", it proposed an approach of ecosystems of places of culture in urban and rural areas from Brazil, especially in the state of São Paulo, where it will be looking for inputs to reflect on the dynamics of collaborative networks stablished on these territories. It hopes to identify mechanisms of significance assignment on such process that unveil divergent and oppositional logics to the one from the neoliberal appropriation of information and knowledge. (AU)