From the vanishing of the modern subject to the in-arising. Contributions from Decolonial Social Work

Abstract

The reinvention of hope as an ethical horizon of politicization at the service of social justice requires the emergence of subjects with a sentient-thinking capacity for collective action to situatedly de-hegemonize the modes of social organization beyond the systems of capitalist, colonial, patriarchal oppression. By placing the analysis in the present time, a continuum is identified between the postmodern deanthropologization movement in the field of social sciences and the factual political minimalization of the subject in the dynamics of the neoliberal world, in whose center the absence of a concept is affirmed. and practice of a subject politically capable of facing the complexity of the current crisis of civilization. It is a theoretical-practical problem of an epistemic-political nature that opens the way to reflect on the role of Latin American social sciences in the construction of answers to the question formulated by Zivechi about how to change the world from the zone of non-being? ?. This confronts this question through three moments. Initially, it starts from an ontological detour to interrogate the anthropological conceptions in the social sciences and with it, in the second moment, to map the theoretical-practical fading of the modern subject and its political powers in the context of neoliberal capitalism, in the face of which , in the third moment, guidelines of inspiration are outlined for the formation of political subjectivities as an in-arise from alterity.