Abstract
Individualist logic and neoliberal thinking call into question human rights, collective solidarity and the universality of policies, achievements of the April Revolution. Social Work (SS) integrates a political dimension, supported by social justice, which places it as one of the agents that in the political and public arena fights against inequalities and social injustices and for the guarantee of social rights. In spite of this, we are witnessing today to a tendency towards the depoliticization of the SS and a low political and civic participation of its professionals, which results in interventions in based on readings of common sense that are merely welfare-oriented, which create spaces for the SS to become a “weapon” for the emerging populisms. The absence of studies on the subject in Portugal makes it urgent to reflect on political and civic participation in the SS, in order to re-establish and strengthen a political-ideological project of the SS Portuguese, capable of guaranteeing democratic principles.
Researchers
Jacqueline Marques (IR), Paula Ferreira (CO-IR), Ana Paula Garcia, Hélia Bracons, Nelson Ramalho, Fátima Gameiro
