What historical account do we build as rural social workers?

Abstract

We set out to make this article because of the need to capture the theoretical routes and paths across rural life, historize and relate the approaches that we, as professionals build with the Peasant Movement. We know that we got transformed after the experience of visiting ancestral communities, taking part in moments of political formation and discussing about the kind of university that we, as socio-territorial movements imagine. After allowing our sensitivities to go through these experiences we, finally, found shelter in the decolonial paradigms. Embodying the collective struggles of the communities, we were able to witness the outcoming of the peasant popular feminism. We left to a side the theoretical narratives and categories that contain and express the historical demands of the sector and its role on the regional economy. We are in the urge of understanding our role as a professional collective in rural life and exchange approaches.

The writing is organized into three sections with a dialectic look between macro and micro. In the first part we have described the social agrarian situation with its complexity and from a historical perspective. We then went on to addressing the state and public politics. We finally have discussed about university and social work.