DECLASSIFICATION AS A CRITICAL STRATEGY FOR KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION

Abstract

Knowledge Organization constitutes a scientific and social field that reflects discourses, values, and perspectives that have historically hierarchized knowledge and rendered invisible socially marginalized epistemic experiences. Faced with this problem, this article aims to analyze declassification as an epistemological strategy capable of promoting a more plural, democratic, and representative organization of knowledge. The research is characterized as exploratory and qualitative, developed through a narrative literature review and metatheoretical investigation, with the works of García Gutiérrez as its main corpus. The results show that declassification operates a rupture with the hierarchical and dichotomous logics of traditional classification systems by incorporating logical pluralism and contradiction as constitutive elements of the organization of knowledge. In this process, interactive epistemography stands out as an emancipatory theory and practice of knowledge organization, and the complex and transcultural operators as concrete instruments for the construction of more ethical, participatory systems sensitive to sociocultural differences. It is concluded that declassification represents an effective possibility for critical epistemological transformation in Knowledge Organization, contributing to informational practices committed to the diversity of perspectives, epistemic inclusion, and the emancipation of historically marginalized knowledge.