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Call for Papers. Special Number “Comparative Public Policies: Innovations and Challenges in a Global Context Under Strain”.
Submissions in Spanish and English are accepted until November 15, 2025, for publication in Issue 11 of the journal on April 30, 2026. Read more

• Call for Papers Special Issue No. 12: Who Cares About History? Archives and Memories as Ways of Resisting Depoliticization and Neofascist Advances

  2025-11-18

  In 2025, we commemorate not only 100 years of Social Work in Chile and Latin America, but also a century since the Chilean 1925 Constitution, among other significant dates. In this context, new and important questions arise regarding archives and sources—their preservation and construction, their appropriate use, and their relationship to the writing of history. These questions emerge, for example, in light of the creation of new archival collections of historic Social Work theses at the Universidad Técnica Metropolitana (UTEM) and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (PUC), as well as the donations made by the Amanda Jofré and Afrodita labor unions—pioneering trans/travesti organizations in Santiago and Valparaíso, respectively—to the National Archive. These and other milestones prompt us to follow the threads of histories often rendered invisible in official narratives. Such concrete examples invite us to consider what kinds of memories they activate, which genealogies they disrupt, and how they challenge hegemonic historical narratives through their own archival gestures. All of this becomes even more urgent in a context where information is produced at a vertiginous pace online, and where large amounts of “fake news” circulate, often fueled by far-right revisionism. For this reason, it seems more urgent than ever to reflect on the relationship between archives, methodologies, and research.

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• Call for Papers. Special Issue: “Comparative Public Policies: Innovations and Challenges in a Gobal Context Under Strain”

  2025-07-07

  At the international level, we are undergoing a period of profound institutional and social transformations, driven by new citizen demands, technological advances, and growing expectations for state responses that are closer, more inclusive, and collaborative. In this context, rethinking the public sphere requires going beyond a logic centered solely on efficiency, placing citizenship, its rights, and demands at the heart of the debate.

  Against this backdrop, Issue 11 of the journal—coordinated by the cluster for Effective Innovations in Public Policy (NIEPP) of the Department of Social Work—seeks to reflect on and analyze public policy innovation processes from a comparative perspective. The aim is to understand how these innovations affect the implementation and evaluation of public policies while requiring the development and revision of design and investment logics, the strengthening of professional teams, and the promotion of sustained improvements in policy effectiveness based on a rights-based approach.

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• Special Issue. Call for papers: 100 Years of Social Work: Debates and Global Perspectives on the Discipline’s Past, Present, and Future

  2025-07-07

  El 4 de mayo de 1925 se fundó la primera Escuela de Servicio Social de Chile y Latinoamérica.
  Como disciplina nos preparamos para la conmemoración de este acontecimiento y les invitamos especialmente a presentar artículos y reportes de investigación que respondan a la interrogante sobre lo acontecido con la disciplina en este siglo.

  Este número especial también quiere aportar trabajos que contengan miradas prospectivas acerca del futuro del trabajo social y sus transformaciones. La identificación de contextos emergentes y nuevos campos profesionales, así como los desafíos de la formación en contextos de transformación y cambio.

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• Número Especial 100 años Trabajo Social: Discusiones y Perspectivas Globales sobre el pasado, presente y futuro disciplinar

  2024-05-31

  La Revista Propuestas Críticas en Trabajo Social – Critical Proposals in Social Work es una publicación bilingüe del Departamento de Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Chile que tiene como propósito promover el debate y la construcción de propuestas frente a los impactos del capitalismo neoliberal, la desigualdad y la opresión que afectan a diversos sectores de la sociedad. Se propone difundir propuestas, análisis y debates sobre lo social desde perspectivas teórico-conceptuales, políticas e históricas enmarcadas en la pluralidad de enfoques críticos de las ciencias sociales, y desde las discusiones de Trabajo Social en diálogo con otras disciplinas.

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• Special Issue "Capitalist Crisis, Right-Wing Movements, Ongoing Rebellions, and Social Struggles"

  2024-01-23

  The Journal Critical Proposals in Social Work – Propuestas Críticas en Trabajo Social- is an academic publication of the Department of Social Work at the University of Chile, aiming to foster debate and the development of proposals in response to the impacts of capitalism, inequality, and oppression affecting various sectors of society. The journal seeks to disseminate proposals, analyses, and debates on social issues from theoretical-conceptual, political, and historical perspectives within the plurality of critical approaches in the social sciences and in dialogue with other disciplines. Submissions from various disciplines and methodological traditions are welcomed, including qualitative and quantitative studies, mixed designs, with participatory and/or collaborative emphases, linking with territories, communities, collectives, social movements, and public policies. The journal also accepts theoretical discussion articles in essay format.

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• Número Especial A 50 años del Golpe de Estado: Trabajo Social, Proyecto Político y Derechos Humanos

  2023-06-05

  La Revista Propuestas Críticas en Trabajo Social – Critical Proposals in Social Work es una publicación académica del Departamento de Trabajo Social de la Universidad de Chile que tiene como propósito promover el debate y la construcción de propuestas frente a los impactos del capitalismo, la desigualdad y la opresión que afectan a diversos sectores de la sociedad. Se propone difundir propuestas, análisis y debates sobre lo social desde perspectivas teórico-conceptuales, políticas e históricas enmarcadas en la pluralidad de enfoques críticos de las ciencias sociales y desde las discusiones de Trabajo Social en diálogo con otras disciplinas. Por lo mismo, son bienvenidos trabajos abordados desde diversas disciplinas y tradiciones metodológicas, incluyendo estudios basados en diseños cualitativos, cuantitativos, diseños mixtos, con énfasis participativos y/o colaborativos, que se vinculen con territorios, comunidades, colectivos, movimientos sociales y las políticas públicas. También se reciben artículos de discusión teórica en formato ensayo.

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