Workshop: Digital Literacies and Digital Inclusion in Contemporary Brazil

Relates the critique of archives in the decolonial debate for social appropriation production of knowledge. It raises the evidence of traumatic violence in the symbolic constitution of identities, memories, visibilities and ways of life through the production of archives and documents subjugated by the colonial system in the modernity. Lacan's psychoanalytic approaches to trauma helps to support perspectives on ways of reporting and constituting social conflict together with the development of archival devices and contend. The decolonial approach is presented as evidence of conflicts in the formation of the archive and knowledge, its power relations and its construction of social history. The biographical and performance aspects presented, complements the decolonial perspective in what is referred to as “neodocumentalism”, in the field of Information Science.