Pre-texto para reflexionar sobre la intervención social desde Trabajo Social: apuestas, tensiones y desafíos en la actuación profesional

Abstract

This article presents some reflections on the risks, tensions and challenges posed by the Social Worker to advance in processes of investigation and social intervention, which from the question, the suspicion and the symbolic action, challenge both processes and place us in rethinking them as interwoven processes recreated from different epistemological spaces of enunciation and various methodological strategies that bring us closer to other logics and meanings of social interventions.

Considering the above, a recovery of the experiences carried out between the years 2010 to 2018 is presented, with the Afro-descendant population settled in the urban space, cases: Cartagena de Indias, Barranquilla and Santa Marta, based on the methodological strategy “Intercultural Encounters” as a permanent exercise of reflection-action-reflection on the knowledge, practices and experiences of this black ethnic-racial group in the  main cities of the Colombian Caribbean and in turn return the question to professional practice to clarify the bridges of understanding of the actions installed in the daily life of
the subjects and from which we read and think the stakes of professional performance.