Geopolítica del desarrollo comunitario : reflexiones para trabajo social

ABSTRACT: The expansion of community development since the 1950s as an strategy to integrate populations considered to be in a marginal situation to industrial development, represented for the Social Service of the time, today the Social Work profession, the birth of one of the classical methods of...

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Author: Gómez Hernández, Esperanza
Format: article
Status:Published version
Publication Date:2008
Country:Colombia
Institution:Universidad de Antioquia
Repository:Repositorio UdeA
Language:Spanish
OAI Identifier:oai:bibliotecadigital.udea.edu.co:10495/4737
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10495/4737
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Desarrollo de la comunidad
Modernidad
Intervención social
Desarrollo local
Trabajo social comunitario
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Summary:ABSTRACT: The expansion of community development since the 1950s as an strategy to integrate populations considered to be in a marginal situation to industrial development, represented for the Social Service of the time, today the Social Work profession, the birth of one of the classical methods of intervention, the community one. The decline in importance of community development in the subsequent decades to the 1970s, has generated questioning about the place that community development had in the social matter, or its equalization with what is currently known as local development. This paper revises the international geopolitical framework within which community development took place as a concept and as a methodology, and its political insertion in the development, understood as Western modern progress. From this analysis, Social Workers are invited to reflect about the community perspective and power that underlies the encounter between communities and professional.