Movimientos sociales y Trabajo Social: miradas y difusión científica

Abstract

The wave of global mobilization initiated at the beginning of current decade, in which episodes of political struggle have been recorded in different parts of the world, has provoked a renewed interest of the Social Sciences for the phenomenon of social movements and collective action. Social Work is not alien to this vigorous stream of studies on the phenomenon of citizen mobilization. With this article we intend, on the one hand, to reflect on social movements from the perspective of Social Work, and on the other, to explore in the scientific production that social workers have been doing on this matter. For this purpose we have carried out an exploratory study in which we have investigated the dissemination of research on social movements in the scientific journals of Social Work from four Ibero-American countries: Argentina, Spain, Mexico and Peru. The results show the growing interest in the phenomenon studied as well as the theoretical approaches, or analytical categories, and the institutional affiliations of the scientific publications.