A dialogue between critical information competence and anti-colonial theories from Dussel, Quijano e Fanon

Abstract

Critical competence in information (CCI) moves contrary to the dimension of competence itself or centered on an individual who, based on skills and knowledge, would become more competent. After all, what skills would these be without truly being aware of the ethical, social, political and economic dimensions of the subject in the capitalist world? Thus, a critique of this liberal and hegemonic model of mere competence is posed by several authors who resort to critical theories from the social and human sciences, which underlie the bases of critical competence in information. Our objective is, therefore, to continue the dialogue by bringing other theoretical bases in the construction of anti-colonial thinking, starting from decolonialists such as Enrique Dussel, Aníbal Quijano and Frantz Fanon. This research is classified as exploratory and bibliographic in nature. We consider that CCI can also be integrated with other epistemes whose critical and combative bias towards the proposed model becomes the starting point. Our study therefore moves in this direction, linked to critical post-colonial studies, with much more disquieting and less epistemic calming thoughts, thus contradicting the dominant narratives