Abstract

JOYA-VALBUENA, Daniela. Youth Subjectivity: Readings from Within and For Social Work in Colombia. Prospectiva [online]. 2021, n.32, pp.79-102.  Epub July 01, 2021. ISSN 0122-1213.  https://doi.org/10.25100/prts.v0i32.10919.

This paper presents the considerations that came from a review of the academic production of Colombian Social Work regarding youth subjectivities and the associated professional roles and duties. It is based on the results of a state of the art that reviewed documents, published in indexed journals of Social Work and in other Social Studies journals, which critically approached the issue of the cultural and historical construction of youth as subaltern subjects in a society marked by adult centrism. In this sense, the paper analyzes the archeology of the concept of youth in western societies, reviews the dominant discourses and re-signifies the perspective based on the categories of identity, subjectivity and resistance. Also, it reviews the role of the profession-discipline in this relationship and it proposes challenges to make a conceptual and epistemological shift in intervention as well as in research.

Keywords : Subjectivity; Social Work; Adult centrism; Youth.

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