Memória e produção social da informação em direitos humanos: uma perspectiva latino-americana

Abstract

The article deals with the relations between memory and the social production of human rights information’s in the light of a Latin American theoretical perspective. On the theoretical level, it presents a Latin American perspective on the subject and considers that this perspective has as antecedent an extensive production of human rights information’s by nongovernmental organizations. At the empirical level evaluates the academic production in Information Science about documents and archives of human rights, repression and resistance.

Keywords:
Memory; Information; Human rights; Latin America; Dictatorship