Launch | Social Work in Chile: History and Critical Genealogy

Wednesday, May 6 → 6:30 PM → Roberto Bellarmino Hall. Central House → Av. Bernardo O’Higgins 1825. Los Héroes Metro. Downtown Santiago.

“Social Work in Chile: History and Critical Genealogy. Events, Ideologies, and Formation (1880–1945), by academic Rodrigo Cortés Mancilla.».

An investigation that revisits the historical foundations of the discipline in the country. An invitation to reflect on the processes, ideas, and contexts that have shaped Social Work in Chile «as a contested field, that it is not a neutral discipline, but a practice historically crossed by power relations, ideological conflicts, and a society in struggle.».

→ Participants

Rodrigo Cortés Mancilla. Academic, Social Work Department UAH. Director of the Master's Degree in Interdisciplinary Social Intervention and author of the book.

Nicolas Fleet. Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at Alberto Hurtado University. Doctor of Sociology from the University of Cambridge.

Gabriela Rubilar Donoso. Academic from the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile. Doctor of Human and Social Sciences from the Pontifical Comillas University and Doctor of Research Methodology from the Complutense University of Madrid.

Mitzi Duboy. Academic from the Social Work Department at Alberto Hurtado University. Doctor of Social Work from the National University of La Plata, Argentina.

→ Review the book here