However, new channels to participate in resistance actions related to the uprisings began to emerge, as presented by Carolina González. Closely related to the above, another line of exploration in this issue refers to social workers' construction of the professional position in the institutional spaces from which they face the overlapping crises. Her article, entitled “Critical research in critical times: actors, authorship and authority in the production of knowledge in social work”, addresses the connections between critical qualitative research and critical social work and its debates about knowledge production on sensitive issues such as . political violence in the wake of the October 2019 uprising and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The context of the Coronavirus pandemic and its implications for the Brazilian Social
El contexto de la pandemia de Coronavirus y sus implicancias para el Servicio Social brasileño
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For Gramsci, this organic crisis affects all social relations and is the condensation of the contradictions inherent in the social structure (Voza and. The impoverishment of the working classes progresses due to the lack of income, in a scenario of suppression of rights and social guarantees But in any of the possibilities, the insufficient policy, means and social teams gained visibility, even in the bourgeois media, bringing new elements to the professional universe.
I warned you and you didn’t listen to me
Yo te avisé y vos no me escuchaste: pobreza y desigualdad en tiempos de pandemia, en
In the first case, it involves national and international research into the likely consequences of the pandemic. In the second case, it analyzes existing information on the website of the Ministry of Social Affairs. The fourth part focuses on the social situation in the country, one year after the start of the pandemic and the government measures taken.
Social work and Institutions
Social control, transformation and escape routes in critical times
Trabajo Social e Instituciones
Control social, transformación y vías de escape
We will focus on identifying some defining characteristics of the relationship between Social Work and Institutions. One of its founders, René Loureau, decided on the idea of "discovery" part of the task of analyzing institutions (Loureau, 2007). This requirement of criticism is essential to understand some of the problems of.
Variations on intervention and institution
Variaciones sobre la intervención y la institución
In this way, with a firefly light with which we intend to follow the minor's footsteps, this article ends with some elements to think about Social Work's professional intervention and its way of intervening in the social. Some of the challenges that motivate us to think about this work are directly linked to the possibilities of intervention and its practice in the interstitial and inventive fields and textures of the social. Thus assumed, let us begin with a critical thinking of the intervention and the institution from which Georges Didi-Huberman works with regard to the image.
The politics of the register that embraces these images, despite their fragility, depicts an unresolved historical event. So we remain prepared to maintain the excessive exposure of these "paradise light" subjectivities. This allows us to trace the forms of inhabiting the violence and resistance of the irreducible modes of existence at play in this politics of register described above.
It is important to see that here a thought is articulated that explores different ways of existence and the recognition of the right to exist. From the exposed cases, we see how this framework is being articulated with the founding philosophy of Souriau (2017). It is necessary to think, then, about the modes of registers and mechanisms of visibility of these other non-categorizable, non-distributed forms of life that constantly disturb the binary oppositions of majoritarian systems.
A tentative conclusion: the minor's openings and possibilities for any institutional intervention process.
German Social Work in totalitarian regimes
El trabajo social alemán en tiempos de regímenes totalitarios: una comparación entre el “Tercer
Initially, the article describes the historical lines of the development of social work in Germany. The GDR suffered from the ideological continuity especially in the treatment of social work's so-called 'anti-social' clients. This contributed to the fact that the despised care for the poor became care for the population's "welfare".
98 social and pedagogical movement, especially in the field of youth. This became a breeding ground for accepting the "brown revolution" of the Nazis - including in the field of social work. NSV employees took over the collection for "Winterhilfswerk" (Winter Help) and the humanitarian organization "Mutter und Kind".
The year 1933 marked the beginning of an improvement in the social situation of the clients and in the professional preconditions. Differentiation was apparently such a necessary part of the National Socialist educational system that it was not dispensed with even at the “final station”, in the youth concentration camps. Like the Nazis, the SED left the care of the disabled to the churches.
The FDJ must – just like the Hitler Youth – also educate the young people in the spirit of the state party.
On the subalternity of social work and the duality of theory and practice (as
De la subalternidad del Trabajo Social y la
The debate about the origins and consequences of the separation of theory and practice in social work seems anachronistic and endless. By emphasizing the personal responsibility of the "user" to solve problems in a world of uncertainty (Abad Miguélez and Martín Aranaga, 2015), where people are at the mercy of circumstances and their situations are evaluated in terms of vulnerability, the capacity of the state to guarantee rights as of universal goods is minimized (Güendel, 2015). In the context of the protection of children's rights in Chile, which has plunged into a deep and worrying crisis (Sánchez and Villarroel, 2017; Sanfuentes and Espinoza, 2017; Solar, 2015; Centro de Politicas Públicas UC, 2017), the separation of theory and practice goes beyond merely epistemological discussion.
The last specialized study (National Service for Minors-International Labor Organization, SENAME-ILO, 2004) proved 3,719 NNA victims in the country, a figure that, possibly even then, was a small percentage of the actual cases. The problem highlights the requirement for specialized work in this type of sexual violence due to the particularities of the victims and of the violence itself. The flowchart is an ideal tool for identifying and analyzing the critical nodes of the intervention.
In the context of professional work, the use of theoretical knowledge is materialized through a discourse that enables the justification of the reasons, the principles that support the empirical evidence and the goals/means of social intervention. The lack of awareness of the place it may occupy in socio-political terms places the discipline in a social position that is counterproductive to the aims of Social Work. It is essential to build sufficient autonomy for the creation of subjectivity situated in the daily life of the intervention (Guattari and Rolnik, 1999).
This research has been possible thanks to the support of the National Agency for Research and Development (ANID), FONDECYT initiation project No. 11180652.
Employing critical realism in times of crisis: a study of human rights and social
Empleando el realismo crítico en tiempos de crisis. Un estudio sobre los derechos humanos
This commitment is fully consistent with the global definition of social work (IFSW and IASSW, 2014), the ethical codes of the profession worldwide (Banks, 2006; Lundy, 2011), and the reference documents and messages of international social work organisations, including the global standards for social work education (IASSW and IFSW, 2020). Culture: a) the culture of the academic social work field; b) wider socio-cultural differences between England and Spain. However, the primarily interpretive (or qualitative) nature of the knowledge about human rights and social justice in social work education that this research produces can be emphasized.
How HR and SJ concepts are understood by social work training in England and Spain. The first aim of the research was to examine how these concepts are understood in social work training in England and Spain. Ideology and potential government interests in human rights and SJ in social work education in England and Spain.
The second objective of the research consisted of studying, from the perspective of critical theory, the ideology and possible governmental interests regarding the teaching of human rights and SJ in social work education in England and Spain. Regarding the analysis of the ideology(s) that would influence the way of understanding and materializing, in social work training, the commitment to MH and SJ, two ideologies were identified as particularly influential in social work training in both countries: 1) the neoliberal ideology and 2) the ideology underlying international social work ethical frameworks and ethical codes of the profession worldwide (Banks, 2006). This second ideology was referred to in the study as the "ideology of (international) social work ethics".
Critical realism is a methodological approach to social research that is virtually unexplored in social work research.
Critical research in critical times: actors, authorship and authority in the production
Investigación crítica en tiempos críticos: actoras, autorías y autoridad en la producción de
Therefore, this article intends to review the research practice from the guidelines of the biographical approach and the role that authorship plays in it. Hence some of its connections with the research issues of Critical Social Work and the themes and lines of research that are developed within this stream of the discipline. From critical perspectives, it is essential to adopt an approach that is contrary to extractivism, hence the sensitive nature of the research being carried out.
Researchers have addressed sensitive issues as a feature of the research process (Dickson-Swift et al., 2008). Writing is part of academic work and one of the various ways of disseminating the results of research and studies. Undoubtedly, in the academic field, we write to inform and report on the results of research and to publish the fulfillment of proposed goals;.
This point is reflected in the inclusion of other non-academic authors in the publications, which leads to a debate about the role of the participants and their disjunctions at the moment of thinking about the publication of the results of the research work. The visibility of the authors and actors of the research then becomes a sensitive issue, susceptible to special analyzes and discussions. 174 Spivak's approach is in dialogue with Spry's proposals on the consideration of the other in research processes and the representations that this creates in the research practice itself and the effects that arise from it.
She is an academic and director of the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile.
Preliminary reflections 1
Expresiones del pragmatismo en el
Trabajo Social: reflexiones preliminares 1
This affects not only professions and social workers, but the social subjects of the bourgeois world and the intermediate professions as a whole. Everyday life as a space for the realization of the reproduction of individualities and of sociability is the special place for Social Work. The suppression of the theoretical and ideological-political mediations specific to grasping reality in the immediacy of daily life leads to an appropriation of reality as a lack of mediations.
Its importance goes beyond the fact that, at the beginning of the 20th century, pragmatism represented the main trend in the United States. For James (1979), an idea is true to the extent that belief in it is beneficial to the subject's life. Because in the space of everyday life the expressions of the "social issue" are confirmed, they are considered in themselves and not as a result of the class struggle.
He who is ignorant of the social theory which guides him ends up being an instrument of its manipulation. This rationality has passed through the historical trajectory of the profession and is expressed in the socio-historical context and in the format of social policy. In summary, the problem is: what are the social and political results of the intellectual system we are considering.
24 An example of the previously criticized BH method (developed at the Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais between 1972 and 1975).
