Chile is going through a constituent process that will modify a dictatorial constitution. This climate has brought to light various problems that arise not only from a neoliberal State, but also from a patriarchal and colonizing State. Social work, as it is mostly inscribed in its exercise within the State, is traversed by these discourses. Consequently, the oppressive logics that are exposed in this political process are reproduced in social intervention. This paper presents the need for social work to reflect on the orientations of social intervention. Starting with Foucauldian ideas of power as a network, visualizing complex and multidimensional social phenomena, i analyze from intersectionality how the intervention has been traversed by multiple structures that oppress and exclude. It is also fundamental to orient the intervention towards a multifocal and interprofessional character. All this with the intention of problematizing oppressive logics that have been present in social intervention, reflecting from an intersectional perspective that contemplates the multiplicity of social phenomena that cross the professionals as well as the population involved in the intervention process.
Keywords:
Intersectionality, Social intervention, Social work
Jiménez, D. (2021). Intervention from Intersectionality: A response to multiple social phenomena. Revista Némesis, (18), 33–43. Retrieved from https://revistateoriadelarte.uchile.cl/index.php/RN/article/view/66147
