100 years of Chilean and Latin American Social Work: memory and transformation
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The year 2025 will mark the 100th anniversary of Social Work in Chile and
Latin America, a milestone of great importance for the social and political history of our countries,
as well as for the development of social sciences on the continent. In virtue of this, social workers, without distinction of professional field, are invited to send their
unpublished works for this dossier, to be published in the issue corresponding to the first
semester of 2025 in our journal, which is indexed in SCOPUS, SciELO, ERIH Plus
and Latindex.
We believe that 100 years of the existence of Social Work, reflect a discipline of great
maturity and that at the same time has faced difficulties given its ethos of commitment to
the principles of social justice, human rights, solidarity and participation. The
first School of Social Work in Latin America, founded in Chile in 1925 on the initiative
of Dr. Alejandro del Río, emerged with a marked orientation towards the health and
legal fields, and with a strong female presence, aspects that were transformed as
new university-level training spaces emerged and the profession advanced in its fields of action. In these 100 years we have gone through
numerous social and political crises, as well as deep ruptures in the social fabric, all of which
has led Social Work to the permanent search for answers to contribute to social
transformation and to overcoming the deep inequalities that have characterized
the continent. The call invites us to critically delve into a publication that leads us to do an exercise of memory not only of the history of Social Work, but of the multiple experiences that have been interwoven between the profession and the world of social organizations, with public institutions, and above all with the participation in the processes of visibility of the diversity of social subjects that remain on the margins and exclusion. The socio-historical conditions that have influenced the future of Social Work in Latin America and particularly in Chile have led it to move, for example, towards the opening of new forms of professional practice to respond to the profound changes that have taken place in our societies as the implementation of the economic model based on competition and the withdrawal of the State advances. Much has happened in these 100 years, and the invitation is to capture various perspectives on the future of Social Work in this dossier. We invite you to also reveal the contradictions that cross us, the theoretical and methodological tensions, the emergence of professional fields of action, the meeting points with other disciplines, the participation of Social Work in the construction of knowledge, and other aspects that are significant for the profession.
With this dossier we seek to make available to the academic and professional community, to public policy and social organizations, the current reflection of Social Work, and to pay tribute to those who have woven the history of these 100 years, most of the time, anonymously.
Texts will be accepted in Spanish, English, French, Portuguese and Mapudungun.
Guidelines for authors can be found at this link:
https://portalrevistas.uct.cl/index.php/cuhso/directrices
Submission date: December 30, 2024
Coordinators of the dossier:
Magaly Cabrolié Vargas: mcabrolie@uct.cl
Luis Vivero Arriagada: lvivero@uct.cl
Leticia Arancibia Martínez: leticia.arancibia@pucv.cl
Alfredo Carballeda: alfredocarballeda@gmail.com