Abstract

ROSERO MOSQUERA-LABBE, Claudia. A Critical Reading of Workshops on Sexual and Reproductive Health, and Cultural Strengthening for Black Women Forcibly Displaced by the Armed Conflict in Colombia. rev.estud.soc. [online]. 2007, n.27, pp.122-137. ISSN 0123-885X.

This article analyzes the speeches and social practices of government social practitioners - social workers and psychologists - who work in programs that provide psychosocial care for displaced black women who come to Bogotá from the Pacific region as result of the country’s internal armed conflict. The article focuses on the assumptions underlying two types of workshops that these programs offer: sexual and reproductive health, and cultural strengthening. It then shows how the speeches and practices used in these workshops illustrate two contradictory ways of valuing the black ethnic-racial presence in the country. Instead of being spaces of equity and justice, these workshops reproduce images and social representations of this "otherness" and create social distances that promote asymmetries in ethnic-racial relations with black people.

Keywords : Social intervention; psychosocial care; ‘relational’ professions; sexual and reproductive health workshops; cultural strengthening workshops.

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