Sistema Regional de Información
en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina,
el Caribe, España y Portugal

The present work assumes that the inclusive development of the city in governance contexts requires the active participation of citizens to ensure their success. However, the evidence indicates that in the design of the city, territorial planning instruments -such as the Communal Regulatory Plan in Chile- put asidea robust participation procedures that legitimize the development process.The hypothesis is that the territorial community organization is undervalued in these processes, even though the current legislation assigns them a role of permanent collaboration with the municipality in the tasks of local development. Especially in the most direct organizational instances in the daily life of the neighbors, because their systematic contribution greatly increases the democratization in the construction of the city.The case work was developed in the municipality of Melipilla through the application of a mixed methodology that uses documentary analysis, semi structured interviews aimed at key actors and a survey applied to thirty-one leaders of active Neighborhood Boards. The findings indicate a low historical link of these units with the processes of territorial organization, missing the opportunities offered by the current community institutions.

In April 2016, the Second Workshop of the Popular University of Social Movements (UPCM), coordinated by Boaventura De Sousa Santos and organized by the University Extension Secretariat (SEU) of the National University of Córdoba (UNC), was held in Córdoba, Argentine Republic. Twenty-six activists and leaders from different regions of the country took part in the meeting. They are members of organizations belonging to different indigenous peoples, whose struggles are linked to the popular economy, urban and rural movements, and environmentalists against mega-mining. The axis of the workshop was to think about the meaning of the territories and the struggles that are built around them. This debate contributed to reflect collectively on the lessons learned, experiences and strategies of these struggles, which helped to strengthen, express and articulate with other movements to dispute with various hegemonic powers. Recovering what was debated in the Workshop, the objective of this article is to share an analysis of the senses around territories, and the ways in which these are reconfigured as the struggle itself within the framework of the different strategies and perspectives of each organization and of the participants of the Workshop.

The Territorial Human Rights Defenders are multi-stakeholder territorial intervention teams based on collective strategies in situations of institutional violence. Inserted in a Network of Ombudsmen that began in the Buenos Aires suburbs, they are based on the horizontality of knowledge among territorial actors and the creation of strategies to address access to justice and contribute to the fight against institutional violence. This article deals with the experience of setting up a Territorial Ombudsman's Office from a university extension project of the National University of Mar del Plata in the Belisario Roldán neighborhood of the same city, under the paradigm of critical extension. Based on this, the process of participation in the neighborhood fabric is described as strengthening social networks, and the dispute to thread new senses of popular intervention in territories where the rupture of social ties favors the deepening of violence. Finally, it deals with the route of articulations carried out, the main axes of intervention of the device as well as the role of the University as one more social actor in the construction of community experiences.

The urban interventions implemented in Cordoba have diagrammed different forms of appropriation of the city, and with it other and new experiences of life in the urban space. These transformations reflect the way capitalism ensures its reproduction, through valuing certain areas and distributing populations within them. Mainly, it is the financial capitalism through a logic of valorization and speculation that promotes other forms of appropriation and enjoyment of the city, which also finds in the State a great pivot from which different interventions are also operated to ensure the reproduction of capitalism. Under the slogan of "became a homeowner", one of the housing policies designed to attend this, was one named "Middle Class Home". This policy built other and new relationships around the housing topic and the city in general. Our study aims to analyze the policies and speeches of the officials, as well as interviews with beneficiaries. We focus the analysis around state discourses about housing, the challenges and criticisms around the city. Through the analysis around  the housing policies it is possible to analyze the tensions involved in the right to housing and with it the right to the city.

The work presents a theoretical inquiry on the Community Integrator Centers (CICs), with the objective of registering the subject that questions the device and the values that the Program tried to transmit since its implementation. I use the concept of Institutional Program coined by Dubet (2006), as a way of understanding institutional configurations in general, because I place the CICs as a particular expression of the intersection that occurs in the territory between state institutions, values, resources and subjects.The analysis considers the contextual aspects that are necessary to understand the Institutional Program of the CICs; specifically, the changes that took place in the State, social policies and popular sectors in the long cycle of neoliberalism in our country (1976-2002) and in the period of Kirchnerist governments (2003-2015). It also covers approaches, tensions and disputes surrounding social policy.I present theoretical definitions of State, social policies, state institutions, institutional program, popular sectors, territory, and describe the mentioned policy.The central idea is that the CICs address a particular type of subject of the popular sectors, transmitting certain type of values and norms from the development of their institutional work.

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.

In this article we intend to explain a set of theoretical reflections derived from the Research Project "Historical reconstruction of neighborhood spaces and their problems. From the memory of the neighbors "carried out during the period 2016-2017. In particular, we analyze the presence of the State and other social actors in the processes of solving social problems in the Revol, Bella Vista, Observatorio and Alberdi neighborhoods of the city of Córdoba, from the perspective of oral history, that is, of history made body by the neighbors and referents of social organizations. Different concepts such as social space, territory, neighborhood, among others, were synthesized in the diverse histories of a  specific social and territorial space that was built and resignified by  them, giving them common elements and, at the same time, differentiated. The conjunction between oral history and territory is a tool that nourishes the analytical perspective and intervention of Social Work and other professions linked to neighborhood and territorial processes, at the same time, which strengthens strategies for solving social problems from the perspective of neighbors and their organizations.

The article deals with the consumption of drugs in the territory from the paradigm of risk and harm reduction. Drugs and their consumption - as part of the government's agenda - today challenge us to think about inclusive and integral interventions in the territory, where networks are a key to develop and execute assistance and preventive strategies within the framework of the Law of Mental Health and Addictions; strengthening from the profession of social work the active participation of the people targeted by these strategies, considered as subjects of rights.

Poverty indicators increased in 2018, which was reflected - and more noticeably still - in childhood poverty, without observing state strategies to mitigate the impact. There are several organizations that produce data about poverty, which propose different methodological measurement strategies, but all agree that the impact is severely greater in the child population, placing it above 40%, when the indicators of general poverty are around 30%. The data acquires greatest relevance in as much its more concrete manifestations act and it violates basic rights of the childhood with the aggravating circumstance, that no state coping strategies were observed to cushion the impact, but rather, on the contrary, budgetary measures linked directly with the reduction and the sub-execution thereof. The central issue that guides this article is the growth of childhood poverty, its statistical characterization, is conditions of production and reproduction, the state actions or omissions, and the presentation of other voices - especially academic ones - that tried to account for the process and its implications It was prepared within the framework of a research project “Measurement and Mediatization of the Contemporary Social Question in Argentina. A reading of the main national social indicators”, developed by teaching researchers from the National University of Lanús.

The present paper intends to analyze the expressions of the social question in the adolescent population that resides in the Buenos Aires Conurbation, and assists public agencies of attention. To do this, we conducted a historical journey of the category “social question”, posing different perspectives and establishing a position as constitutive of capitalism, as an expression of the contradictory relationship between capital and labor. Next, we develop the conceptualization of adolescence, emphasizing in its socio-historical configuration, its particular characteristics within the classes that live from work, and in the gender differences that are glimpsed within the same age group. From this framework, we briefly describe the institutional spaces that will be analyzed (health and family justice), taking two particular situations of adolescents with intervention from each one of said organisms. Finally, axes of analysis and questions to deepen are formulated, considering the current legislation, and some conclusions are mentioned.