Pandemic, Territorial Reconfigurations and Community-Based Social Organizations

Abstract

The work intends to reflect on the relationships between the dominant neoliberal rationality in our Latin American societies and the processes of subjectivation deployed from institutions and practices in connection with community-based social organizations. In this case, thinking about the pandemic, the post-pandemic and the different reconfigurations that have occurred in the territories of social relegation as a result of its social impacts, prompt us to develop some ideas based on experience working together with this type of organization in the Gran La Plata. This experience carried out from comprehensive university educational practices of the Faculty of Social Work of the UNLP implies dimensions linked to teaching practice, research and extension. This perspective on educational practices focuses on problems of social importance and channels efforts towards their resolution, with the intention of contributing to the generation of relevant knowledge, which is a way of democratizing knowledge. In this sense, thinking about how neoliberal rationality, contemporary political processes, intervention practices and strategies developed by community-based social organizations overlap in the current sociopolitical context, allows us to stress some historical assumptions that need to be reviewed.