As relações de poder no discurso dos dispositivos legais e o desenvolvimento das coleções em bibliotecas públicas

Abstract

This analysis intended to reflect on the relations of power in the representation of cultural and epistemic diversity in the discourses of the legal documents about cultural policies, which refer to the process of Development of Collections in Public Libraries of the Fundação Municipal de Cultura of Belo Horizonte. It had specific objectives: to identify which documents affected the Collection Development process; to apprehend the elements as to the interdiction, coloniality of power and coloniality of knowledge; identify the asymmetries in the discourse of these devices to the cultural and epistemic diversity; to lift the political and sociocultural tensions implicit in the process of developing the library collections of the municipal network of the Municipal Cultural Foundation. The relevance of this work is due to its contribution to the understanding of the political, social and cultural issues that permeate the process of Development of collections in Public Libraries. Theories dealing with the conceptions of Public Policies for Culture and Public Libraries, as well as on the Development of Collections for the understanding of the empirical body, were used. To compose a perspective of looking, we selected the categories of analysis inherent to some of the aspects of Cultural Studies, and the power relations and analysis of the discourses that base their exercise, according to the theory proposed by Michel Foucault. It is, therefore, an analysis of the discourse of legal provisions and other documentary sources that affect the process of Development of collections Municipal Public Libraries of the Cultural Foundation of Town.