SOCIAL WORK: training, professional work, and modern theoretical trends

摘要

This issue of Katalysis, with the theme Social Work: training, professional work, and moderntheoretical trends, is released in a particularly troubled time in Brazil. It is a moment where the incumbentgovernment adopts a ‘policy of death,’ or a ‘necropolicy’ that explicitly determines who can or cannot live. It iscrucial to resist to this kind of force, fighting it daily on the ‘shop floor’ or in academic spaces, by producinginformation that is socially acknowledged from the emancipation and liberation of those who live by selling theirworkforce. Societal transformations, at this moment of capitalist accumulation, demand radicality to guaranteea meaningful life, which is the outcome of collective construction of another world, where there are no longerexploiters or the exploited.