Revisando a construção de epistemologias no Instituto de Ciências Sociais – UFAL

Abstract

What can the bibliographical references of academic works tell us about the invisibilization of certain narratives and the recurrent use of others? Seeking to reflect on the epistemological disputes present within knowledge production environments, this work aims to analyze the bibliographic references of monographs defended from 2018 to 2022 by bachelor's degree students at the Institute of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Alagoas. In this sense, we seek to problematize the reproduction and invisibilization of certain epistemological fields and canons of knowledge. Observing their applications and legitimization through the recurrence, or not, of citations. This research is characterized as explanatory, qualitative and based on the categorization of references according to the following parameters: race, gender and citation frequency. As this is a documentary study, we used platforms such as the website of the Institute of Social Sciences - Ufal. Analysis of the data allowed us to conclude that around 60% of the bibliographic references analyzed referred to male researchers, 80% of whom were white. The recurrence of citations reinforces the struggle to deconstruct eugenic standards in the reproduction of knowledge. Epistemological disputes are built from a place of struggle and reinforcement of plural access for multiple voices. The counter-hegemonic path in the production of knowledge is a long and laborious one.