The Latin American reconceptualisation movement

Servio, Mariana

doi:10.1332/204986014x13988471727900

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“…Community intervention methodologies have a long history in Latin American social work. The emphasis on advocacy, that is, organising for critical collective action as a strategy to address social injustices, reached its peak in the 1960s and 1970s during the reconceptualisation movement (Servio, 2014), declining after the military dictatorships in the 1970s and the democratic regimes that followed (López, 2010). In Latin America, community intervention continues to be part of the social work curriculum taught in higher education institutions, generally following the logic of dividing social intervention methods into case, group and community inherited from Anglo-American schools of social work (Malizia, 2021).…”

Section: Neoliberal and Neo-colonial Underpinnings Of Community Inter...mentioning

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Decolonising community social work: contributions of front-line professional resistances from a Mapuche perspective

Arce

Rain

2022

Critical and Radical Social Work

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Since the return to democracy in the 1990s, community programmes in Chile have been pervaded by the neoliberal and neo-colonial approaches of social policies promoted by the state and supranational organisations, such as the World Bank. In this article, we examine the possibilities of front-line community social workers dismantling such a hegemonic rationale. Drawing upon the contributions of Latin American decolonial thought, we argue that social workers are able to exert resistance on the individual, competitive and instrumental approaches underlying their community interventions by decolonising their understandings and professional practices, and by being involved in collective political action. An exploration of Mapuche philosophy is offered as a means to illustrate some key dimensions in order to scrutinise community interventions and challenge the traditional mainstream Western and Eurocentric notions of community, knowledge and professional bonds and encounters. These proposals apply when working not only with culturally different populations, but also with all those subaltern groups oppressed by the neoliberal and neo-colonial rationale, in the interest of contributing to cognitive justice – another dimension of social justice.

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Section: Neoliberal and Neo-colonial Underpinnings Of Community Inter...mentioning

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Decolonising community social work: contributions of front-line professional resistances from a Mapuche perspective

Arce

Rain

2022

Critical and Radical Social Work

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“…The influence of the Latin-American Reconceptualisation that emerged in the second half of the 1960s in such countries like Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Colombia, to name but a few, reached Portugal in the early 1970s (Branco, 2009;Martins, 2017). This critical approach, considered by Ferguson, Ioakimidis and Lavalette (2018) as a radical social work movement, strongly rooted on Marxist grounds (Ammann, 1988), sought to reconfigure concepts, methods and the fundamental philosophical and ideological principles of what was then deemed as traditional social work (Servio, 2014). Underlying this task was the notion that social work would not be able to challenge the social and economic problems of Latin-America, nor help these societies overcome the internal relations of domination and dependency toward foreign powers (ALAESS, 1971: 1-2), unless it broke with imported features.…”

Section: A Door Ajar To Radical Engagement: the Influence Of Latin-american Critical Renovation Movementsmentioning

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The radical turn of Portuguese social work during the democratic transition (1974–76)

Silva

2019

Critical and Radical Social Work

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The transition to democracy in Portugal in the 1970s provides the socio-historical background for this article. It focuses on the period of 1974–76, known as the revolutionary phase, when a series of progressive political programmes, forms of direct democracy, collective mobilisation and widespread grass-roots initiatives emerged in the aftermath of the dictatorial regime. The experiences of Portuguese social workers in the aforementioned revolutionary vanguards will be compared and interpreted by using the radical social work approaches that sprang up in the UK and US at the time. Ten in-depth interviews with social workers involved in radical intervention during the revolutionary phase will be compared to the key tenets of the radical social work literature of the 1970s.

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“…In Portugal, given the historical circumstances of having lived a totalitarian political regime until the mid-1970s, the social work awakened to a more critical stance only from the 80s, and very 'stuck' to the Latin America Reconceptualization Movement, that took place in the mid-1960s in Latin American social work (Servio, 2014), therefore, more stronger in still nascent and immature academic world of social work in Portugal, but without great support to professionals in the field, "persisting traditional social work in line with the classical methods and without aiming the collective subject" (Santos, 2008, p.113).…”

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Social Worker Role in Times of Austerity<strong> </strong>

Sousa¹,

Almeida²

2018

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Background: The financial austerity policy imposed to Portugal by Troika - the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund in 2011, led to a tremendously social crisis. Under these dominant trends in Europe, which were felt especially in certain countries, such as Portugal, we feel ourselves forced into an analysis and reflection on the impact of this conjuncture in social workers, especially analyzing the role played by social workers and its critical consciousness relative to this neoliberal model and imposed austerity policies. Methods: This article results from an analysis of empirical data collected after the entry of Troika in Portugal, during 2013. Were conducted 26 in-depth interviews to front line social workers, with the purpose of obtaining a narrative of their daily work practice and with the concern of encouraging reflection on them. Results: Analysis shows the predominance of a maintenance role at the expense of more emancipatory approaches and thus, this results point to the relationship of this maintenance role with the sociological paradigm of social regulation and shows also, how social work is still attached to a conservative agenda. Secondly, one finds a weak critical reflection among social workers, being very afraid to speak out against the system, taking on a submissive attitude and subservient to the policies of social cuts imposed.  The analysis then raises the challenge for social workers to develop a critical reflexivity Conclusion: The results highlight several important observations in terms of social woker role and that a critical activity is urgently required to social workers.

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The Latin American reconceptualisation movement

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Decolonising community social work: contributions of front-line professional resistances from a Mapuche perspective

Decolonising community social work: contributions of front-line professional resistances from a Mapuche perspective

The radical turn of Portuguese social work during the democratic transition (1974–76)

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