Challenges to an Ethical-Political Practice: Chilean social work after the dictatorship

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The study is based on the hypothesis that social work has been dominated by a mercantilist logic of neoliberalism, which was imposed during the civil-military dictatorship in Chile. It analyzes and interprets the historic antecedents of Chilean social work from a critical-hermeneutic perspective. It concludes that education and practice of the discipline require a re-orientation, which should be based on a profound critical historic reflection and based on this, generate the bases for a new ethical-political project to guide the disciplinary and professional work

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Luís Vivero Arriagada, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile

Asistente Social, Licenciado en Trabajo Social, Doctor en Procesos Sociales y Políticos en América latina, Académico-Investigador Departamento de Trabajo Social, Universidad Católica de Temuco.

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2017-10-11

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