Derecho a la información, bibliotecas y archivos: Pluralidad e injusticias epistémicas en los sistemas de información contemporáneos

In this research, the task of demonstrating that the library (as an institution) and the librarian (as a professional) are facilitating agents of democratic processes, which must be directed towards achieving the autonomy of citizenship, thanks to social circulation, was undertaken. of the information. In Chapter 1, discusses the way in which Mexican democracy —founded on a constitutional rule of law— faces the challenge of guaranteeing access to information in a transparent manner, by supporting activities in the matter to increase citizen participation. In Chapter 2, the mechanisms through which the right to information is constituted as an essential element that allows generating conditions of equality in multicultural environments immersed in a globalized regime were specified. This right must advance according to the development of the informational society, especially in its relationship with the myriad of digital technologies, on which it is materially supported. Informational self-determination is not limited solely to official decision-making processes, but also contemplates the strengthening of the conditions of social justice. As a corollary, in Chapter 3 the routes, paths and challenges that a documentary information professional must undertake so that they can materialize their social dedications, under the protection of the right to information, as a fundamental human right and as a constitutional prerogative, were specified. The task that librarians and archivists have before them is of the utmost importance for the procurement and defense of the right to information. As part of their mission, they must recognize that information needs are legitimate basic needs, in addition to mitigating injustices and information asymmetries, for which they will have to devise inclusion strategies (both in the space of flows and in the space of places).