The Promotion of Knowledge through the Associative Movement

Proceedings of the 2nd Brazilian Congress of Archival Science

Abstract

In Brazil, the associative movement began in 1971 with the creation of the Association of Brazilian Archivists (AAB) in Rio de Janeiro. The AAB promoted study cycles, conferences and other events aimed at producing knowledge in the field of archives. Another important contribution of the Association was the creation of the first scientific event in archival science in Brazil, the Brazilian Congress of Archival Science. The first edition of the Congress took place between October 15 and 20, 1972, in the former state of Guanabara, now Rio de Janeiro. The second edition of the CBA took place in São Paulo, from November 24 to 29, 1974. Unlike the first and subsequent editions, the event was organized by an outsourced company. The AAB promoted seventeen editions of the CBA, the last of which took place in 2012 and was subsequently abolished in 2015. It can be seen that there is a gap in the history of the associative movement in relation to the II CBA. We didn't find any effective research on this edition of the Congress, nor did we find the proceedings, which have not been published. Based on this finding, the problem of this research is to find out what themes and discussions were presented during the II CBA. This study is justified in order to understand what knowledge was being debated and produced at the time, as well as what ideas and innovations were circulating among researchers, academics, students and archival professionals. The research aims to recover the memory of the second edition of the Brazilian Congress of Archival Science. Its specific objectives are to learn about the different periods in which the associative movement was structured in Brazil and what the discussions and contributions of the II CBA were. The theoretical framework is based on research by Souza (2011), Crivelli and Bizello (2012), Silva (2013), Marques, Rodrigues and Santos (2014), Melo and Esteves (2023) and Melo and São Paio (2025), who discuss the associations of archivists as a relevant segment in the History of Brazilian Archival Science. The research is descriptive, bibliographical and documental, with a qualitative approach. The research was based on documentary analysis, with the José Pedro Pinto Esposel and the Association of Brazilian Archivists (AAB) funds as the corpus, under the custody of the Coordination of the Archival Science Course at Fluminense Federal University and the National Archives, respectively.  The results of the research indicate that the program included six plenary sessions and three round tables. The absence of reports made it impossible to make a more precise analysis of the number of people attending the event. However, 11 recommendations were approved, including the proposal to regulate the profession of archivist, with higher education, and archive technician. By identifying a part of the memory of the II CBA, the history of Archival Science in Brazil is recovered and consolidated from a scientific point of view.