Critical interculturality in a decolonial perspective: challenges for social work training
The neoliberal multiculturalist discourse underpinning ‘policies of identity’ in Chile since 1990 has influenced diverse fields including social workers’ training courses. This has resulted in the coexistence of a discourse that recognises cultural diversity at the same time colonial perspectives pe...
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Instituto de Política, Sociedad e Intervención Social (IPSIS) de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales (FCS) de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (UNC)
2019
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| Acceso en línea: | https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/ConCienciaSocial/article/view/23950 |
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| Sumario: | The neoliberal multiculturalist discourse underpinning ‘policies of identity’ in Chile since 1990 has influenced diverse fields including social workers’ training courses. This has resulted in the coexistence of a discourse that recognises cultural diversity at the same time colonial perspectives persist in the dynamics and contents of such training. Analysing social workers’ training processes in Mapuche territory (La Araucanía, Chile), we observe the dominance of a multiculturalist approach which depoliticises and dismisses Mapuche students and Mapuche people’ history. However, we understand professional training also as an opportunity to create resistances and struggles for recognition. Thus, we propose to adopt a critical interculturality in a decolonial perspective, in order to inform social workers’ training courses from a position that contests neoliberal multiculturalism and challenges coloniality. |
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